Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. LawrenceMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Some crude language aside this isn’t qualitatively different from Lawrence’s other English novels, except that his ideas are more baldly stated. Mellors and Connie are more depressed by the collieries and the mechanisation of modern life, and more cynical about the pursuit of money and success. The ending is also less ambivalent – Lawrence providing his couple with the promise of a romantic and sexual union that will sustain them in the “tragic age” they live in.
The book is most successful in depicting the pressures placed on the couple by class and the need to conform – extricating themselves from their loveless marriages is legally onerous and socially ruinous. The novel’s climax is their decision to go through with it regardless, which is what makes it a winning and resonant love story.
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