The White Stocking (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- First Published: 1914
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The early twentieth century
- Setting: A small town in England, probably in the Midlands
- Principal Characters: Ted Whiston, Elsie Whiston, Sam Adams
- Genres: Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Freedom, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Marriage, Women, Men
- Locales: Midlands, England
The Story
When the smooth married life of a rather ordinary young couple is disrupted by the intrusion of a third person, the couple find themselves swept into an explosive situation that is beyond their capacity to control. There is certainly nothing remarkable about the protagonists, Ted and Elsie Whiston. They have been married two years, and live in a small, homey dwelling, their first house. She is a former factory worker, small and pretty, but also coquettish and superficial (“she seemed witty, although, when her sayings were repeated, they were entirely trivial”). He...
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See Also:
D. H. Lawrence (Cyclopedia of World Authors)D. H. Lawrence (Poetry)D. H. Lawrence (Short Fiction)D. H. Lawrence (Long Fiction)D. H. Lawrence (Dictionary of World Biography)D. H. Lawrence (Censorship)Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
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