Gerald having immersed himself in the machinery of the coal business looks for someone to reignite his humanity and feels he has found this spark in Gudrun. Gudrun and Gerald compete with each other, both trying to gain the upper hand and ultimately causing lots of strife in their relationship. Both women, and the novel more generally, are concerned with questions of social class, politics, and the relationships between men and women. Gudrun seeks a relationship with Gerald, the heir to a coal mine. Ursula, a teacher, pursues a relationship with a man named Rupert, who is a school inspector. Ursula and Gudrun live in the Midlands region of England in 1910. Lawrence pursues the consequences of these relationships over the course of WWI, and the novelends in the Tyrolean Alps. Both girls are in love, but in vastly different types of relationships. It is the sequel to his novel The Rainbow and continues the story of the Brangwen sisters, Ursula and Gudrun.
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