Thoughts on the ending.

[yoki]

I have just finished The Rainbow. My immediate understanding is that, at last, Ursula has a more detached perspective of existence: she can see that human life, despite all its materialism, its artificiality and the superficial changes, is, as ever, occurring within the natural perpetual cycle of death and rebirth. I think this suggests she can now appreciate a constant blend of 'Sunday' and 'Weekday' life... that she has reached an acceptance of the simultaneous presence of the infinite darkness that surrounds light. Any thoughts appreciated.

[YesNo]

I haven't read the book. Who wrote it?

If you think about it, just a bit, you should be able to see that "the infinite darkness that surrounds light" is just a metaphor. Flip it and you get a different metaphor, "the infinite light that surrounds darkness." That gives you a choice between two alternatives.

Edit: I checked further. I see that D H Lawrence wrote the book.

[yoki]

Hmm, I hadn't thought about it like that. Thanks. I suppose I haven't sensed that 'lighter' message in his work (the only other one of his I've read is Lady Chatterley's Lover), but perhaps I've been projecting my own ideas onto his. Interesting.

[Carmilla]

Hello yoki!!

I read The Rainbow a few years ago and didn't like the way it ended, but I hadn't seen it the way you have. I liked the book very much, though. I like better the way Women in Love ends.