![]() ![]() Despite Tom’s disapproval, the two begin a courtship and marry in a big ceremony at the Brangwen’s farm.Īlthough Will and Anna share an idyllic honeymoon in their cottage, their relationship quickly sours and soon they are fighting like Tom and Lydia before them. As Anna ages, she remains headstrong and solitary until she meets William, the nephew of Tom. ![]() ![]() She is described as being a fiercely independent and hearty young girl who adores her step-father and feels distant from her mother. In the third chapter, the focus of the novel shifts to Anna. While much of the start of the novel is dedicated to depicting the anger shared between Tom and Lydia, they proceed to have two of their own children: Tom and Fred. Still, he grows close to Anna, the daughter she had from her previous marriage. The marriage between Tom and Lydia is marked by the feeling that “they were so foreign to each other,” as Tom struggles to make sense of the life that Lydia lived before immigrating to England. The novel begins on the Brangwen’s Marsh Farm and first follows Tom Brangwen as he courts and marries a Polish widow named Lydia. Through the Bragnwen’s, Lawrence traces the broader social, cultural, and technological changes happening in England at the same time. The Rainbow follows the intergenerational development of the Brangwens-a family of farmers living near Ilkeston in the East Midland region of England-from the 1840s to the early twentieth century. ![]()
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