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D. H. Lawrence: Sons And Lovers: Character Analyses

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Lawrence, D. H.

Lawrence, D. H.
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Sons And Lovers: Character Analyses

Paul Morel:

The central character of Sons and Lovers is a good portrait of the young
D.H. Lawrence himself. Paul is a light, quick, slender boy, tall, with a shock
of reddish, light - brown hair and, later on, a mustache like the young
Lawrence's. His "keen, aloof young body" - as it seems to Miriam - is wiry and
expressive. His hands are mobile and display the same sensitivity and
alertness as his mobile face. His features are good but "rough," like those of
Lawrence himself, because - like Lawrence - he is "a man of ...

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