D.H. Lawrence's story was published in The Prussian Officer and Other Stories (1914).
In this story Lawrence returns to his relationship with Hilda Millership at Haggs Farm, a relationship which he explores fully in his novel 'Sons and Lovers'. The hero has moved on in the world of men and is married yet cannot forget his old love. He retraces his steps to the farm hoping for what? He finds his old love attached to a physical young man who can give the girl what he could not - pure physical love and this she prefers to his more intellectual love. Chastened, he leaves the beauty of the countryside to return to the town.
The story portrays the theme of freedom, respecting the right of a person to love whom they want and not to be tied down by past links. There is also a rich natural imagery used here, pertaining to changing seasons as changing habits of man, flowers as innocence and the enduring farm as a place people come back to.
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