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d Clara, he still kept his attraction toward his mother. Everything he does is for her, the flowers he picks as well as the prizes he wins at school. His mother is his intimate and his confidant (Kuttner 278). Clara tried desperately to win Paul over, but her social sophistication was too much for him. Paul tells his mother: I dont want to belong to the well-to-do middle class. I like my common people the best. I belong to the common people (Lawrence 250). Clara shows frustration with Paul because of his maternal devotion. Again Lawrence displays the Oedipus complex through Paul to his mother, And I shall never meet the right woman as long as you live (341). Pauls Oedipal love would be tested once more by him dealing with the death of his mother. Paul, though, was tough enough in handling this dilemma. R.P. Draper recognizes the loss of Pauls mother as: Their special, private, intimate grief over the impossible dream, and the magnificence of the woman, and the devotional quality of Pauls love, render the deathbed scenes poignant and innocent (292). The verification of Kuttners statement is seen as Lawrence has Paul react to her death in this manner: my love my love oh, my love! My love oh, my love! (384). Lawrence also writes of Pauls continuing love for his mother: Looking at her, he felt he could never, never let her go. No! (385). Kuttner Implies: But death has not freed Paul from his mother. It has completed his allegiance to her. For death has merely removed the last earthly obstacle to their ideal union (280). The love that Paul feels towards his mother would never die. He loves her just as much when she died as he did when she was still alive. Paul continues life having a maternal devotion that no other woman would ever be able to fill. Throughout the novel, Paul is seen as one who lives for his mother. Mark Spilka explains: For if Paul has failed in his three loves, he has drawn from them the necessary strength to live (293)....

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