Wildeve himself sometimes complains about his “curse of inflammability” in relation to women, but his personality is impossible to define in isolation. He finds nothing amiss in professing to love both Thomasin and Eustacia at the same time, for different reasons, of course. Unlike Eustacia’s, his feelings are never deep, only easily aroused. Although he is attractive to women the elements in his personality and appearance that make him so do not work with men. His lifestyle is impulsive, from his quickly responding to Eustacia’s signal fire in the beginning of the novel to his unhesitating leap into the stream with all his clothes on to try to rescue Eustacia. His death when he attempts to rescue Eustacia does not seem like a very great loss.