THE FOX

D.H.LAWRENCE

TITLE

The Fox

Animal which lives at woods

Its particular charateristics are cunning and cleverness

It is distinguished by its tawny cloak

CHARACTERS

March

Her name recalls the month and the verb “to march”, that underlines the period in which the story develops She is attractive by the fox She does men's jobs She is istinctive

Banford She lives with March in farm She is rational At the beginning she is attracitved by Henry

Henry Soldier, who comes back to war He is fall in love to March

PLOT

March and Banford live toghether at farm during the first world war One day March meets a fox and she is attractived by it and she becomes passive A young man, Henry, comes at farm and he stops with they At the beginning Banford is attractive by him, but he is fall in love with March He askes to March to marry him and she answers yes Banford is gelous and she finds to obstruct their relationship Henry kills Banford and marries March

SETTING

The story is set in 1918 in England at Baley Farm The context is during the First World War

NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES

The shift of the point of view

Free direct style

Free indirect style

A third person omniscient narrator

THE MESSAGE

Reflection on the relationship between woman and man