AP Literature and Composition
Everyone has strengths and weaknesses. Their strengths and weaknesses defines who they are as a person. In the short story, The Blind Man, by D. H. Lawrence shows this. The Blind Man is about a man named Maurice Pervin who lost his vision during WWI and and has to cope with his vision loss throughout the rest of his life. His wife, Isabel, feels sorrowful and cannot bear looking at him. Bertie, a good friend of Isabel and who Maurice does not like, comes from Scotland to the Grange, where Maurice and Isabel live. Bertie and Isabel talk about what they have been up to since they haven't seen each other for two years. In the story "The Blind Man:, Lawrence is able to show that with every weakness in a person, there is a strength through the comparison of Maurice's and isabel's view of darkness, contrast between Maurice and Bertie, and description of Isabel's insight of other people's feelings in certain situations.
Through the use of comparison of Maurice's view and Isabel's view of darkness, Lawrence was able to show how Maurice can strongly adapt to blindness despite his depression from it When Isabel was trying to find Maurice, Isabel searched in the yards, where Maurice typically works. Isabel was searching during the evening and eventually arrived near the stable where Maurice was at, taking care of the horses for his daily duty.
Isabel described the darkness as "nothing came from the darkness. . She did not stir, because she was aware of the presence of the dark hindquarters of the horses, though she could not see them, and she was afraid. Something wild stirred in her heart" . Maurice, however, according to the narrator, " Pervin moved about almost unconsciously in his Ray 2 familiar surroundings. . It was a pleasure to him to rock thus though a world of things, carried on the flood in a sort of blood-prescience." This correlates to his "curious tentative movement of his powerful, muscular legs". The author makes an analogy of great strength to better adaptation of things. For Maurice's wife, the darkness was freighting while to Maurice, it is just a part of his life. Maurice's wife is always worried about Maurice with such a disability. However, with this disability, comes a new way of how Maurice views the world. Moreover, his vision loss has made him get a better sense of the world around him. Being that Maurice lives under physical darkness every...
