They, in turn, look upon her as unfriendly and too proud; Mrs. Yeobright tells Clym she is idle and probably wanton. Susan Nunsuch even thinks of her as a witch. Unlike Clym, whom the heath folk can at least fathom in part, Eustacia is beyond their comprehension. Only Charley has […]

Read more Character Analysis Eustacia Vye

It might even be said that he anticipates a kind of martyr’s role. Both the heath folk and his mother are doubtful of his plan to be a “schoolmaster to the poor and ignorant”; they view it as impractical as well as less desirable than his commercial career in Paris. […]

Read more Character Analysis Clym (Clement) Yeobright

After discovering from the servant what Venn has done, Thomasin encounters him while taking her daughter, Eustacia, for an airing. Venn and Thomasin see each other often after this meeting. Thinking he is obligated to do so because of his mother’s wishes when she was alive, Clym is about to […]

Read more Summary and Analysis Book 6: Chapters 1-4

Venn, in the inn, watches a servant dry the bank notes that were in Wildeve’s pockets and must tell Charley, who calls on the Captain’s behalf, that Eustacia is dead. Clym appears and takes both Venn and the young man upstairs to see the bodies of Eustacia and Wildeve. To […]

Read more Summary and Analysis Book 5: Chapter 9

Summary Deciding on the next evening, the sixth, to leave, Eustacia signals Wildeve as planned. When the letter for her from Clym arrives, she is in her bedroom, and Captain Vye doesn’t give it to her because he assumes she is asleep. When he finally realizes she has left the […]

Read more Summary and Analysis Book 5: Chapters 7-8

Summary Now living at his mother’s house, Clym waits, expecting to hear from Eustacia. On the Fifth of November evening, he goes to see Thomasin and Wildeve, though he doesn’t know Wildeve is then on his way to see Eustacia at her grandfather’s house. Since Thomasin doesn’t know, he tells […]

Read more Summary and Analysis Book 5: Chapter 6

Summary Knowing nowhere else to go, Eustacia returns to her grandfather’s house. She is looked after by Charley, her admirer from the time before she was married. When she moodily contemplates the pistols in Captain Vye’s room, he removes them, later replying to her questions that he cannot allow her […]

Read more Summary and Analysis Book 5: Chapters 4-5

Clym immediately accuses Eustacia of cruelty to his mother and deception of himself with another man. Restraining himself from striking her, he shouts at her until she can take no more, and she defends herself but without answering his questions. Then she leaves the house. Shortly after, the servant tells […]

Read more Summary and Analysis Book 5: Chapters 2-3

Analysis The chapter is used primarily as a summary one, in which Clym’s grief of the past few weeks is epitomized. What he says to Eustacia and then Thomasin is the latest repetition of what he has said all along. His attitude toward himself here is reminiscent of the self-pity […]

Read more Summary and Analysis Book 5: Chapter 1

Meanwhile, Eustacia, waiting impatiently at home, starts out to meet Clym but is halted momentarily by the arrival of Captain Vye, with news that Wildeve has inherited eleven thousand pounds. Thinking of Wildeve in a new light, Eustacia starts for Blooms-End, only to meet the man who occupies her thoughts. […]

Read more Summary and Analysis Book 4: Chapters 7-8