Summary of sons and lovers
Chapter 1- the married life of the morels
In the beginning of the first chapter of the book it begins to describe the neighborhood that the morels family live in, the neighborhood is called “The Bottoms” which is the miners dwellings. Mr. Morel is a miner and Mrs. Morel his wife is pregnant with their 3rd child they move into their new home on the day of the wakes which is a fair in the neighborhood. Williams the eldest son goes to the fair then Mrs. Morels takes her daughter Annie. Upon arriving at the fair she sees Williams and they spend time together at the fair. As we go further in the book we begin to see who Mr. Morel is. While Mrs. Morel waits for her husband to come home from work, she puts the children to bed. Mrs. Morel is tired of her husband drinking and begins to wonder if her life will ever change. She begins to reminist on her life and the things that she use to clean the house and sews.
In addition, we find out that Mrs. Morel is, goes by the name of Gertrude Coppard and her up bringing as an individual. Gertrude comes from a poor family and meets morel at a Christmas party. Because of the way she was brought up at the party when morel asked Gertrude to dance she refuses, however it didn’t take long for Gertrude to fall for morel, so the next Christmas they married and lived a happy life. Not withstanding after being married for seven years she stumbles upon bills that are unpaid for household furniture in her husband’s pocket. On the other hand, she fronts him about the bills and he brushes her off. Mrs. Morel then begins to isolate herself from her husband, hen turns to her child. Due to the problems they are facing in their marriage Mr. Morel cuts Williams hair while his wife is sleeping.
Furthermore, another incident that occur s is at the wake ( a fair) that morel and a friend ( Jerry Purdy) attends, however Mrs. Morel does not like him because of his strong influence on her husband and drinking. When morel arrived home he was very irritable and has a fight with his wife and locks her out the house.
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