Horse Dealer's Daughter

In D. H. Lawrence’s “The Horse Dealers Daughter”, the short story writer and novelist depicts the struggles of a women who tries to deal with the collapse of her family and the non existent relationship between her and her brothers. We see the main character, Mabel, wanting to be loved by someone but is unable to find it as the story takes place. As stated by Ford, “Lawrence uses a transparent, omniscient narrator, a …

…dangerous and destructive has been unleashed. Forces have been set in motion which are not controllable.(Votteler 233). These uncontrollable forces is what makes the characters of the story so gripping and memorable. The fact that the passion they find is somewhat unexplainable can be one of the major reasons people take to this story for the simple fact that we have always been consumed with the unexplainable which drives the reader to seek an answer.