5/9/2023 0 Comments The woodlanders sparknotesGiles Winterborne, meanwhile has made his own way as an honest workman. Eager to give his daughter an education and experience beyond their isolated existence Melbury has sent Grace to an exclusive boarding school. Melbury’s timber business has grown over the years and he enjoys a certain level of wealth and independence. The families live in the small village of Little Hintock, surrounded by woodland. Melbury vowed to himself that he will right his previous wrongs by seeing his daughter marry the son of Winterborne.Īs the years have gone by, however, the situations of the Melbury’s and the Winterborne’s have changed. Winterborne also married and had a son, Giles, but Winterborne has since died. He soon had a daughter, Grace, but his wife died in childbirth and Melbury has since remarried. Melbury has carried the guilt of these events ever since. Years ago, Melbury married a young woman, though, as far as he is concerned, he seduced her away from her true love a man named Winterborne. Late at night, George Melbury, a timber merchant, is outside his house pacing back-and-forth, lost in troubling thoughts. But that does not mean it contains any less of Hardy’s trademark of exploring the tragic consequences of making bad choices in love. The Woodlanders is possibly one of the lesser Hardy novels.
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