"The Horse Dealer's Daughter"
By: D.H. Lawernce
The story "the Horse Dealer's Daughter" by D.H. Lawerence was a very good love story. I enjoyed reading this more than any other story we have read. As I was reading the story I didn't imagine that the young doctor would fall in love with Mabel or vice versa. Mabel is a woman that has lost both of her parents and her father left a lot of debt behind for his children. Mabel was very close to her mother and has had a hard time dealing with her death. Also the fact that they use to be a wealthy family, which made Mabel very proud, and now in debt is hard for her.
The young doctor is not at all interested in Mabel in the beginning. He is dealing with his own problems with the fact that life has left him and all he does is work. He notices Mabel one day as she is cleaning the grave site and begins to look at her differently. This overwhelming power comes over him as he thinks about her. It is if she gives him his life back. This passion she brings out of him grabs hold and he doesn't know how to deal with it.
One day Mabel decides to end her life and walks into a pond and never comes up for air. The young doctor sees Mabel doing this and runs to help her. Even though he doesn't know how to swim all he can do is try to save her. His doctor instincts take over even though his mind is telling him you can't swim. At this time nothing matters but saving her life. He gets her out of the water and breaths air back into her and then takes her inside to remove her wet clothing. Although his feeling for her are very strong all he can think about is taking care of her medically. When she comes to she realizes that he saved her not only because that is what he does for a living but also because he loves her. Mabel's feelings for him are the same.
This was a wonderful story of two people who think life is over for them and end up helping each other. Their feelings for each other brought back a reason for living for both of them. Even though the young doctor saved her from drowning in the water she also saved him from drowning in misery.
I have to agree with you that this was one of the better stories that we had to read.I had not realized that the doctor did not know how to swim. I just thought he did not like the smells and sinking clay in the pond. But as you said this is when we learn how the doctor really feels for Mabel. It was his desire and love for Mabel that drove him into the pond to save mabels life. I truly do like the way this story came together.
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