*Summary:
The first chapter of “Sons and Lovers” by D.H. Lawrence introduces the Morel family and describes the story’s setting, a neighborhood called “The Bottoms,” where the miners live. Mrs. Morel is pregnant with her third child, which she does not want because she has fallen out of love with her husband and because the family is poor. When her husband comes home from working at a bar, the two argue over his drinking.
The text took the readers back to a period in time of how Mrs. Morel meets her husband Mr. Morel, which was at a Christmas party. After marrying him the following Christmas she later found bills of his unpaid dept and grew to dislike him slowly because of the fake personality in which he showed her. The hatred grew even from Mrs. Morel towards her husband, Mr. Morel because he cut his eldest sons hair, William, which was her favorite child at the present moment. Then one night Mr. Morel came home drunk and when his wife confronts him about a matter he argued with her. He got so angry that he flung a drawer after his wife which cut her forehead. But that was not enough for him, he locked her out of the house although she was pregnant and decided that the best way to cool off his drunkenness and angry is by staying in bed for some days.
