Los Morel en la feria disfrutan de los juegos,
especialmente el hijo mayor. Del
clásico de D. H. Lawrence, Sons and
Lovers…
Mrs. Morel did
not like the wakes. There were two sets of horses, one going by steam, one
pulled round by a pony; three organs were grinding, and there came odd cracks
of pistol-shots, fearful screeching of the cocoanut man's rattle, shouts of the
Aunt Sally man, screeches from the
peep-show lady. The mother perceived her son gazing enraptured outside the Lion
Wallace booth, at the pictures of this famous lion that had killed a negro and
maimed for life two white men. She left him alone, and went to get Annie a spin
of toffee. Presently the lad stood in front of her, wildly excited.
"You never
said you was coming—isn't the' a lot of things?—that lion's killed three
men—I've spent my tuppence—an' look here."
He pulled from
his pocket two egg-cups, with pink moss-roses
on them.
"I got
these from that stall where y'ave ter get them marbles in them holes. An' I got
these two in two goes-'aepenny a go-they've got moss-roses on, look here. I
wanted these."
She knew he
wanted them for her.
"H'm!"
she said, pleased. "They ARE pretty!"
"Shall you
carry 'em, 'cause I'm frightened o' breakin' 'em?"
He was tipful of
excitement now she had come, led her about the ground, showed her everything.
Then, at the peep-show, she explained the pictures, in a sort of story, to
which he listened as if spellbound. He would not leave her. All the time he
stuck close to her, bristling with a small boy's pride of her. For no other
woman looked such a lady as she did, in her little black bonnet and her cloak.
She smiled when she saw women she knew. When she was tired she said to her son:
"Well, are
you coming now, or later?"
"Are you
goin' a'ready?" he cried, his face full of reproach.
"Already?
It is past four, I know."
"What are
you goin' a'ready for?" he lamented.
"You
needn't come if you don't want," she said.
And she went
slowly away with her little girl, whilst her son stood watching her, cut to the
heart to let her go, and yet unable to leave the wakes. As she crossed the open
ground in front of the Moon and Stars she heard men shouting, and smelled the
beer, and hurried a little, thinking her husband was probably in the bar… (Excerpts
from Sons and Lovers, by D. H.
Lawrence)
Vocabulario
Aunt Sally: figura de una anciana usada en las
ferias como centro para arrojarle objetos.
moss-rose:
una variedad de una rosa.
El autor
D. H. Lawrence comenzó a trabajar en Sons and Lovers en el período de la
enfermedad de su madre y frecuentemente expresa el sentido de desperdicio de la
vida de la mujer. Las cartas de la época demuestran la admiración que sentía
por su madre, “una mujer inteligente, irónica y delicada” y el desafortunado matrimonio
con su padre minero, “un hombre de temperamento sanguíneo e inestable.” Este
conflicto personal le proveería material para la primera mitad de su novela.
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