Horse Dealer's Daughter

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The central theme in D.H Lawrence's Horse Dealer's Daughter is love. This desire and need to love is shared between a few people, but the primary holder is Mabel. Mabel is the horse dealer's daughter. She is a young woman in her mid twenties who is in search of her true being. Her father has died and Mabel along with her brothers are in debt and with nowhere to go. Through all the commotion, one person manages to keep her composure and that person is Mabel. This young lady has so much love to give and seemingly nobody to give it to: nobody except for her dead parents, her mother who passed when she was 14 and her recently deceased father, nobody except for her brothers who do not want to be loved. So what does she do? Exactly what anyone in need of loving and being loved would do, she looks for a way out.

Her brothers do not want the love. They have already packed their bags and are ready to leave the farm. They are ready to leave the place they have called home their whole lives. This is too much. Mabel is not ready. "For months Mabel had been serventless in the big home, keeping the home together in penury for her ineffectual brothers"(375). Mabel has kept the farm

ng, and, drawing her nearer, turned to take his way to land again"(378). He does not know how to swim and yet risks his life to save a girl he barely knows. That is love.

delivered from his own daily fretted self"(377). Is not love beautiful that without even uttering a word that intense emotions can be had.

Mabel is looking for a way out. She is looking for a way to keep everything perfect. Keeping everything perfect is not possible. Things are different now. "Now, for Mabel, the end had come. Still she would not cast about her. She would follow her own way just the same. She would always hold the keys to her own situation"(376). She had gone from a happy young lady, to someone who is suicidal in what seemed to be just overnight. All of this commotion because of a lack of love given to her, she has given love for years and is just waiting for some in return. On one of her regular visits to her mother's grave, "Glancing across the graveyard with his quick eye he saw the girl at her task at the grave. She seemed so intent and remote, it was like looking into another world. Some mystical element was touched in him. He slowed down as he walked, watching her as if spellbound"(376). Was the doctor himself maybe feeling some butterfly's? Is it possible that this innocent gi!

It seems as though all the loving that Mabel has done in the past is going to be returned to her, but is it too late? Has this child in need of affection gone astray? "She lifted her eyes, feeling him looking. Their eyes met. And each looked away again at once, each feeling in some w

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Approximate Word count = 1067
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

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