Sunday, February 28, 2016

"Love Among the Haystacks and Other Stories" by D.H. Lawrence ***

  • Short Stories
  • Audiobook
  • English author 
  • Originally published in 1930
  • Love Among The Haystacks:  two brothers and their first experience of romantic love
  • #2:  Mother and daughter with enmeshed relationship.....competitive re: love.....very sexist attitude, which I can usually understand in context of the times, but this was extreme
  • Odor of Chrysanthemum :  miners, husband of poor family dies, associated with smell of the flowers, death clarified the distance which had existed between them
  • Blue Moccasins : Older woman marries younger man....becomes bitter....Moccasins become a symbol of lost love
  • Goose Fair: 
  • The Maid:  High society airs
  • Review:  Must admit that these stories have been disappointing.  I have thoroughly enjoyed Lawrence's novels, but the short stories in this collection were not as well developed as one can find in other collections.  I think I will stick with his novels!

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