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Intense and powerful, The Rainbow is the story of three generations of the Brangwen family in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Tom Brangwen is rooted to the land he farms and brings his widowed Polish emigré bride Lydia to live with him on the farm. His stepdaughter Anna marries a Brangwen cousin Will, and they struggle to compromise their clashing temperaments to find fulfilment and a sense of identity, while their daughter Ursula herself struggles to gain independence and a life outsi
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May 04, 2025
Jenna
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DH Lawrence isn't just giving us a close 3rd person, he is reaching for an intimate, embodied experience of his characters. I feel him straining for stream of consciousness - Mrs Dalloway is just around the corner. But he hangs on to too much explanation for that - he remains outside, a narrator thinking about what makes a person tick, what the religious, sexual, intellectual impulses are that drive actions, choices and decisions. Probably why this was deemed so pornographic - lots of lusty feel
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