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The Overtone

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The Overtone

By: D.H. Lawrence
Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe
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"The Overtone" looks at a sterile marriage with no children and no spontaneous sexual feeling between the couple. Lawrence seems to lose interest in the story, although he introduces a younger woman who walks away baffled at the end. His purpose seems to be to analyze the relationship between men and women in religious terms - Christianity for the women and the old Pan religion for the men. Lawrence produces some fine writing, but the argument at the end of the story seems contrived.

Public Domain (P)2022 Alan Avery
Classics Fiction Short Stories
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