"The Woman Who Rode Away"
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D.H. Lawrence was long a controversial literary figure largely because of his attention to sexual issues in his works. One of his more neglected works is a short story entitled "The Woman Who Rode Away," a story in which the author contrasts a view of the primitive with the modern world and evokes a sense of deeper meaning through ancient sexual rituals. The story has power because of the mysterious nature of both the main character and her motivations and the ancient world to which she aspires, the world of an Indian tribe hidden behind the mountains. In this story, Lawrence deliberately leaves his characters somewhat sketchy and vague in order to emphasize their larger role as types, as representatives of different cultures and different times. In his "The Blind Man," the third-person omniscient point of view is used, with the narrator maintaining at all times an objective distance that is in keeping with the story's analysis of the frailty and sadness of human relationships which in their own way are carried on in a darkness as deep as that encountered by the blind man. This story is also character driven and involves a series of relationships among the three principal characters, relationships that have a history but that are changing in the immediate time of the story because of the blindness of the husband who has returned from the war, the experience of the wife in coping with this change, and the sudden acceptance of an old friend of the wife who had previously
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He was a man of principles, and a good husband. In a way, he doted on her. He never quite got over his dazzled admiration of her. But essentially, he was still a bachelor (Lawrence 209).
The fact that the man and woman are not named makes them more types than real people, representatives of the white race brought into contact with the ancient world. The Indians do not care about the woman's identity beyond the fact that she represents the world of the whites. In some ways, the woman finds that she belongs in this wild country, which sometimes frightens her and sometimes attracts her:
She saw natives coming through the trees, away up the slope. . . Curiously she was not afraid, although it was a frightening country, the silent, fatal-seeming mountain-slopes, the occasional distant, suspicious, elusive natives among the trees, the great carrion birds occasionally hovering, like great flies, in the distance, over some carrion or some ranch house or some group of huts (Lawrence 213).
Lawrence builds a sense of doom as the story progresses so that the working out of the ancient god's requirements are more readily accepted and do not appear as something tacked onto a structure that cannot support it. Lawrence accompl
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