Anger in the Work of DH LawrenceD. H. Lawrence was probably a very angry man. His writings are filled with extremely intense feelings of anger and hatred that don't seem to belong. This anger is usually linked to love, but can also be classified based on the other emotions it is linked to. For example, in "Second Best", there is no real reason for Anne to feel very furious, yet she does so towards the mole. Anne somehow identifies the mole as a barrier to her success in love, so she hates him. In “The Shadow in the Rose Garden,” intense anger is linked to jealousy. The husband is extremely jealous of his wife's previous involvement with Archie. In "The White Stocking" anger is also associated with jealousy. Ted doesn't like the fact that Elsie accepted gifts from Sam Adams. The sisters in "The Baptism" feel intense resentment towards their younger sister Emma, ​​who has ruined the family's reputation. This results in anger directed at her and the world at large. Finally, the title character and the orderly in "The Prussian Officer" have a love-hate relationship, except that one hates, the other loves. The Janitor, as the recipient of an unwanted love, feels great resentment and anger towards the Officer, so much so that he kills him. Lawrence uses anger as an all-purpose front and manifestation of deeper negative feelings. For this reason, anger often seems useless and out of place. Its common occurrence, however, allows us to treat it as a motif. In all the stories listed above there are characters involved in intense love relationships. In "Second Best", "Shadow" and "Stocking" there are married or soon-to-be married couples. “The Baptism” has a family and “The Prussian Officer” involves a gay officer. However, there is something dysfunctional in all these relationships and anger exposes it. There's no reason to get angry if there's something wrong, so we know there's underlying turmoil in Ted and Elsie's marriage, for example. Anger is supposed to hint at trouble, so it is up to the reader to discern from the clues in the rest of the text the particular irregularity of the story. In "Shadow" and "Stocking" the anger is between husbands and wives. The two stories are substantially equivalent in message and structure: the wife has hidden a secret from her husband, the husband finds out, responds with jealous anger.