Summary of Sons And Lovers pages *1-25*

     The book starts with a village called 'The Bottoms' where The Morels resided the family consist of    a miner Mr. Morel and his wife Mrs. Morel who lives with their children son William who is seven, their daughter Annie  who is five and they were expecting a third child. The Morels moved into their new home on the day of the wakes (which was a name given to a kind of fair). The eldest child William returned from the wake for dinner, where he hurried his mother so that he may return quickly. Mrs. Morel later took Annie to the wakes and William won her a prize before she left with Annie.
    
     Later that night after the children went to bed, Mrs. Morels reflected on her situations while waiting for her husband to get home. It is revealed that she cannot afford and want her coming child and despises her husband's drinking habit. Only that made her happy was the love she had for her two children. Her husband finally returns home and they both argued about whether or not he is drunk but he  brushed  her off by showing her that he brought gingerbread and coconut for the children. She then surrendered to bed.
    The book flashed back the lives of the couple before marriage. It is shown that Mrs.  Morels were once Gertrude Coppard who was a member of a poor family. She had interest in a man named John Feild until she met Walter Morel at a Christmas party and married him the following Christmas. 
      Seven months within marriage Mrs. Morel found unpaid bills and learnt about her husband’s debts, this then changed how she felt towards him. After cutting of William's hair when she was asleep in which she felt much betrayed Mrs. Morel despise him more after this incident.
        Mrs. Morel disgust deepens for her husband and her disgust continued when he went out with Jerry Purdy who she despised to a wakes. Walk to Nottingham, which is ten miles away, and stop at all the pubs along the way. After a nap in a field, Morel does not feel so well. When he finally returns home they had a fight and he locked her out the house and happens to fall asleep on the kitchentable. After an hour of trying, she finally woke him and gained access to the house.            

         One evening after a quarrel with her husband, Mrs. Morel took Annie and the baby and went for a walk near the cricket field where she named the baby Paul. The Morels got into another altercation when Walter came home drunk one night and accidentally pulls the kitchen drawer to get something to eat. When Mrs. Morel remarked she won't wait on him, he flings the drawer at her cutting her forehead. He found comfort by lying in bed for a few days and layer resorted to his favorite bar for several nights.
       
 Paul meets Clara Dawes, a suffragette who is separated from her husband, through Miriam. As he becomes closer with Clara and they begin to discuss his relationship with Miriam, she tells him that he should consider consummating their love and he returns to Miriam to see how she feels.
Paul and Miriam sleep together and are briefly happy, but shortly afterward Paul decides that he does not want to marry Miriam, and so he breaks off with her. She still feels that his soul belongs to her, and, in part agrees reluctantly. He realizes that he loves his mother most, however.
After breaking off his relationship with Miriam, Paul begins to spend more time with Clara and they begin an extremely passionate affair. However, she does not want to divorce her husband Baxter, and so they can never be married. Paul’s mother falls ill and he devotes much of his time to caring for her. When she finally dies, he is broken-hearted and, after a final plea from Miriam, goes off alone at the end of the novel.