Tickets, Please (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- First Published: 1919
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: World War I
- Setting: The English Midlands
- Principal Characters: Annie Stone, John Thomas “Coddy” Raynor, Nora Purdy
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Women, Revenge, Men
- Locales: Midlands, England
The Story
“Tickets, Please” is a story of unrequited love and the vengeance that it spawns. In its psychological depth and detail, however, it also reveals the sexual war that D. H. Lawrence believed always raged between men and women. The setting is of crucial importance to this story, for it reflects in several significant ways Lawrence's themes. The background is World War I; because most of the healthy young men are away fighting in France, the trains are being driven by “cripples” and “hunchbacks,” and the conductors on this “most dangerous tram-service in...
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