Sons and Lovers is a noverl written by David Herbert Lawrence and it was first published in 1913 in London by Wyman and Sons.wrence was born at Eastwood,Notts,on September 11th ,1885,the fourth child of a miner family who had been employed at Brinsley Colliery since he was 7years old.In 1911,his first novel The white Peacock was published. Sons and Lovers is divided into 3parts and is composed of 15chapters together. The story wa,set in England,can be interpreted as an autobileographicalnovel novel of Lawrence.The hero of the book,Paul Morel,is the second son of a miner family.His mother,Mrs.Morel,is a daughter of a mid-class family.Because of the differences in family background and education,a shadow is soon cast upon the married life of Mrs.Morel.And this shadow is darkened by Mr.Morel's laziness andalcoholism.By misfortune or bad luck,Mr.Morel has an accident and becomes a cripp;e,which changes him into a man of bad tempter.As a result,the couple shares less and less the things in commonand is driven farther and farther apart from each other,.Litttle by little ,Mrs .Morel transports her attention and love to her chilidren ,especially her two sons,William and Paul.She encourages her to leave the samll mining region for a bidg city to find opportunities for a better life.After the death of her first son ,William ,because of hard work and pneumonia,Mrs.Morel"s divided attention and love is poured completely upon Paul.The mother's abnormal love robs Paul of his normal love for his girl friend.Sons and Lovers has always been claimed since its publication to be another version of Oedipus complex.But wrence is in no sense an imitator.Sons and Lovers istruly an autobiographical novel.It describes an ordinary life of a coal miner's famuly.The abnormal love from the mother deprives Paul of his persionality and mental health.It is perhapds because of this true picture of lifa that the novel has won Lawrence even lasting reputation.“他是个强健的、身材修长的男子，有着用不完的精力。
他的脸很粗犷，具有象普通老百姓的那种粗线条；掩在那双浓密眉毛下的眼睛饱含着如此充沛的生命力，以至她不能不着迷。
它们好像在舞蹈，但又仿佛被笑声的余音振颤着；他的嘴巴也一样，好像马上会爆发出胜利的笑声，但又没有笑出来。
他给人以强烈的悬念感。
”他就是保罗。
《儿子和情人》一书中的男主人公。
D.H.劳伦斯细腻入微地叙述了他的青少年生活、与母亲的畸恋以及和米丽安、克拉拉的爱情纠葛。
这本书探讨了英国下层家庭关系的复杂性。
作者很注重心理描写，把保罗的思想逐步地解剖，呈现在读者面前。
保罗自小受到母亲莫瑞尔太太的钟爱，但是父亲却对他不理不睬。
他特别早熟，心里埋藏着对父亲的仇恨。
而莫瑞尔太太则是个复杂的人物，她把对死去的长子威廉的爱移植到保罗身上。
她对丈夫没有一点爱情，只是把他当作客人看待。
但是她极其嫉妒次子的情人，尤其是对米丽安。
因为她深知米丽安要夺走儿子的精神之爱，便千方百计地阻扰，并采取冷漠的态度。
而米丽安深爱着保罗，本来是不愿意与别人分享的，但是她是个富于牺牲精神的人，一直在默默地等待。
米丽安以为保罗在得到她的纯洁后会更爱她，可惜她想错了。
保罗太爱他母亲莫瑞尔太太了！直到他母亲死后，他才走向了新的生活。
至于克拉拉，她与保罗仅仅是肉体之恋。
后来与她的丈夫复合了。
全书洋洋洒洒40万字，其间不但插入了优美的景物描写，而且作者把人物的内心活动与景物的联系写得栩栩如生，各个人物活灵活现，呼之欲出。
此书被列为英国一些大学文科的必读书。
这是一个悲剧，一个儿子与情人的悲剧。
Mrs Morel不幸福的婚姻生活让她把对丈夫的爱转移到了儿子身上。
婚后不久，Morel 夫妇便失去了对婚姻的激情。
Mrs Morel对丈夫很失望，但由于内心深处曾经爱过丈夫，她没有选择离开。
孩子们的到来成为她撑下去的动力。
大儿子William长大成人，她对生活充满了希望，可William不幸染病去世，她伤痛令人欲绝。
之后，她便把希望寄托在二儿子Paul身上，而Paul也很明白母亲的心，对母亲一直都很好。
可是这种特殊的母子关系却造成了最终Paul的悲剧。
儿子就是儿子，如果把儿子当情人对待，那份爱已不殖再纯洁。
当Paul与Miriam 恋爱时，Mrs Morel害怕Miriam把Paul从自己身边抢走，一直不同意他们交往。
最终Paul也没能和Miriam在一起。
当然，除了受阻于他母亲外，还有这两个年轻人自身的原因。
Miriam是个很要强的女孩，她对Paul 的爱让Paul无法自由呼吸。
Paul不能把自己的一切交给这个女孩，而Miriam想要的却是他的所有。
他的身体、他的灵魂、他的一切。
Paul不能承受这样的爱，最终和Miriam分开。
爱也是需要自由的，如果不能轻松地面对彼此，那么这份爱将在亲密无间中窒息。
Paul和Clara的爱最后也结束了。
虽然Mrs Morel没有像讨厌Miriam那样讨厌Clara，但Paul和Clara还是无法继续下去。
Clara是结过婚的人，她希望有坚强的依靠，而Paul无法给她安全感。
Paul因为母亲的原因对婚姻有恐惧感。
谈到结婚她总是摇摆不定。
Clara想得到Paul的全部，而Paul做不到，两人最终分手。
Clara回到了丈夫身边，她觉得丈夫深爱着她，愿意为她付出，能让她依靠，而Paul却不能。
故事最后，Mrs Morel生病去世了。
家里失去了轴心，而不再是家了。
Mr.Morel觉得更加孤独了，以前虽然他与妻子没有心灵上的沟通，但至少回家有人陪在身边，而现在他什么都没有了。
他无法承受这种孤独，去别的地方住了。
而Paul失去了一直相依的母亲，好像一切都失去意义，天空不再明亮，他在黑夜挣扎着。
失去了母亲，他失去了这么多年已经习惯了的生活方式，她迷失了自己。
虽然他曾恨过母亲，还说过如果她活着，他就不能遇到适合自己的人，现在Mrs Morel 走了，可Paul并没有与Miriam结婚，虽然他知道他从内心依附于她，可他最终决定放弃。
或许是因为他太了解Miriam，他无法承受Miriam的爱。
或许是他内心信赖于母亲，失去母亲，仿佛失去了一切。
爱，要全身心投入；爱，不要超越爱的底线；爱，要让彼此自由呼吸。
Sons and Lovers was D.H. Lawrence's first major novel. His only major novel, some would say; but even readers who are out of sympathy with him, or who feel that his gifts were not really those of a novelist, have usually been happy to make a wholeheartedexeception in this one case.It is a book that goes straight to the point, at the outset and at almost every subsequent stage. Between them his two methods leave us in no doubt where the heart of his story is to be located.Gertrude Morel is a woman of high priciples, of character and refinement. Her husband is a miner who can barely read and write. Marrying him for passion, she is bitterly disappointed by his rough manners, his drinking, what she can only see as his weakness and irresponsibility. When the book opens, the marriage has already turned into a battlefield, and the love she has withdrawn from Morel is being redirected toward the first of her children. Such is the world into which Paul Morel is born."Never trust the artist, trust the tale." ---here, as so often,his own maxim seems sound advice. There is no reason to suppose that Sons and Lovers would have been a better book if Lawrence had made Paul an aspiring author, but it would no doubt have been a more literary one. We might have seen more evidence,for example, of the remarkable couse of reading that Lawrence undertook together with Jessie Chambers. We might even have learned something of how he developed his style.。