[HARDY-Ll] Tess and Sleeping Women

[Betty Cortus]

I was fascinated by your perceptive observations about Tess and sleep  
Keith, and how the episodes in the Chase and at Stonehenge form  
natural framing events in her life.  But the earlier scene, too,  
where her falling asleep results in the death of Prince, is another  
pivotal moment in the book.  Without this happening she may never  
have felt compelled to go to Trantridge, and the whole course of her  
life may have been very different.
Betty

On Jan 11, 2009, at 4:16 AM, Keith Wilson wrote:

> In light of JoAnna's posting about the representation of sleeping  
> women in art, it's interesting to note how this motif is very  
> deliberately repeated in Tess in the Stonehenge scene,