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A review by paulataua
The Virgin and the Gypsy by D.H. Lawrence
5.0
"Be brave in your body, or your luck will leave you. Listen for the voice of water"
Yvette is daughter of a countryside priest who has been brought up in a strict traditional family. Unlike her sister, she really feels her repression. In this world of prejudice and inhibitions, she is an ‘innocent’ with what appears to be an unconscious pull towards experiences that will free her.
She met his dark eyes for a second, their level search, their insolence, their complete indifference to people like Bob and Leo, and something took fire in her breast. She
thought: "He is stronger than I am! He doesn’t care!''
Fascinating story in which I am not sure if I am to see the events as leading to her losing her virginity or whether, being purified by the symbolic water, she is gaining her virginity, the ‘animal’ innocence lost in her repressive upbringing. Whatever the interpretation, it is a totally thought provoking read.
Yvette is daughter of a countryside priest who has been brought up in a strict traditional family. Unlike her sister, she really feels her repression. In this world of prejudice and inhibitions, she is an ‘innocent’ with what appears to be an unconscious pull towards experiences that will free her.
She met his dark eyes for a second, their level search, their insolence, their complete indifference to people like Bob and Leo, and something took fire in her breast. She
thought: "He is stronger than I am! He doesn’t care!''
Fascinating story in which I am not sure if I am to see the events as leading to her losing her virginity or whether, being purified by the symbolic water, she is gaining her virginity, the ‘animal’ innocence lost in her repressive upbringing. Whatever the interpretation, it is a totally thought provoking read.