![]() ![]() She thinks that person might be Damon Wildeve, who loves her but has set her aside to marry Thomasin Yeobright. Eustacia is an outsider and never adapts to it.Įustacia is discontented and sees love and marriage as her way off the heath and into a grander life – yet in this very small town there’s unlikely to be a man who can give her all that. The heath in Hardy’s world is a character in itself – it’s brutal but the villagers know it and love it. Hardy describes her as a goddess, a woman who could rule the world, if she wasn’t stuck on the heath. ![]() Eustacia Vye is a beautiful, educated young woman who has come to live with her grandfather after the death of her parents. The book is about a very, very small town in the English countryside in the early 1800s. Today I’m settled down in a marriage, home and career. Then I was seventeen, full of emotional angst and a pretty immature idea of love and relationships. Reading it again, I wondered if it would read differently. I was a senior at the time and basically an emotional mess. I first read Return of the Native when it was assigned in my high school English class. ![]()
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