Paul Morel

When Paul looks at him with an artist's appraising eye, Radford sneers, "Who are yer staring at, yer little sod?" In Sons and Lovers, Baxter Dawes precipitates a fight with Paul, who at one point, as their bodies cleave together, is surprised by his own warm, positive feelings toward Dawes - a marked development of Paul's character in the novel. According to Baron, "There are deletions, rewritings, and comments in Jessie Chambers's handwriting. Understood as a research volume, as the Cambridge University Press classifies it in some of its publicity, rather than as a completed novel in Lawrence's literary canon, this book will be a valuable resource for scholars.