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A review by leelulah
The Fox by D.H. Lawrence
2.0
Read to understand the points on Eudora Welty's On Writing.
Meh. Beautiful prose and some fox symbolism but deep-down the recurrent topic of the tough, tomboyish girl who's softened by a cunning fox-like man
Henry is such a nice guy, you guys, you won't believe it. He just wants to live off the work of women. And marry one, because it means a free house, indeed. In fact, he's even a nice guy in the classic internet sense.
You're just not like other girls, Nellie March, this is why I'll try to keep you apart from your friend, I only think of you in the most inappropiate ways possible, and I've crept up on you multiple times, in a rapey way, but that's just because you were dressed as a boy, and now that you have a dress on, you look feminine enough and I'm aware of your "feminine vulnerability"! I'll murder your smart friend in front of her own father, in front of you, and that's how we'll marry.
The moral of this story is: Stay away from the fox. I'm not sure, I think I don't feel like reading any more D. H. Lawrence unless I must. Not that it's not well built, not that it's bad, but it's too transparent. It's almost like a carefully disguised Jordan Peterson lecture. Perhaps the idea was the portrayal of two weak women and a cunning man, but again this was terribly transparent to me.
Meh. Beautiful prose and some fox symbolism but deep-down the recurrent topic of the tough, tomboyish girl who's softened by a cunning fox-like man
Spoiler
and she puts a dress on for him, because yeahHenry is such a nice guy, you guys, you won't believe it. He just wants to live off the work of women. And marry one, because it means a free house, indeed. In fact, he's even a nice guy in the classic internet sense.
Spoiler
"Yes, I might easily find another girl. I know I could. But not one I really wanted. I’ve never met one I really wanted for good. You see, I’m thinking of all my life. If I marry, I want to feel it’s for all my life. Other girls: well, they’re just girls, nice enough to go a walk with now and then. Nice enough for a bit of play. But when I think of my life, then I should be very sorry to have to marry one of them, I should indeed.’"You're just not like other girls, Nellie March, this is why I'll try to keep you apart from your friend, I only think of you in the most inappropiate ways possible, and I've crept up on you multiple times, in a rapey way, but that's just because you were dressed as a boy, and now that you have a dress on, you look feminine enough and I'm aware of your "feminine vulnerability"! I'll murder your smart friend in front of her own father, in front of you, and that's how we'll marry.
The moral of this story is: Stay away from the fox. I'm not sure, I think I don't feel like reading any more D. H. Lawrence unless I must. Not that it's not well built, not that it's bad, but it's too transparent. It's almost like a carefully disguised Jordan Peterson lecture. Perhaps the idea was the portrayal of two weak women and a cunning man, but again this was terribly transparent to me.