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2015-05-25 01:45
导读：Ashurst was compassionate. He bore no malice to hurt Megan. The sentence “Had any man ever such a cruel moment to go through?” shows that he didn’t want to make such a cruel decision. He pitied
Ashurst was compassionate. He bore no malice to hurt Megan. The sentence “Had any man ever such a cruel moment to go through?” shows that he didn’t want to make such a cruel decision. He pitied her and condemned what he had done to her. Galsworthy used the word “beast” to show Ashurst’s deep regret. In these sentences, Ashurst’s another character—indulging himself in pity and chivalry reveals.
“And suddenly he seemed to see Stella’s calm eyes looking into his, the wave of fluffy hair on her forehead stirred by the wind. Ah! It would be madness, would mean giving up all that he respected, and his own self-respect. He turned and walked quickly back towards the station.”
These sentences show that Ashurst was not in the same class with Megan. He was in the upper class and Megan lower class. When he thought of Stella, his class viewpoint came into being. In his opinion, to marry Megan would mean giving up all that he respected, and his own self-respect. The word “quickly” in the last sentence shows Ashurst’s irresponsible attitude. He and Megan were not equal in spirit and personality.[7] Megan loved him whole-heartedly, but he look down upon such kind of love.
“But memory of that poor, bewildered little figure, those anxious eyes searching the passers-by, smore him too hard again, and once more he turned towards the sea. The cap was no longer visible; that little spot of colour had vanished in the stream of the noon promenaders. And impelled by the passion of longing, the dearth which comes on one when life seems to be whirling something out of reach, he hurried forward. She was nowhere to be seen; for half an hour he looked for her; then on the beach flung himself face downward in the sand. To find her again he knew he had only to go to the station and wait till she returned from her fruitless quest, to take her train home; or to take train himself and go back to the farm, do that she found him there when she returned. But he lay inert in the sand, among the indifferent groups of children with their spades and buckets. Pity that little figure wandering, seeking, was well-nigh merged in the spring-running of his blood; for it was all wild feeling now—the chivalrous part, what there had been of it, was gone. He wanted it all with a horrible intensity, as the faun wants the nymph. The quick chatter of the little bright trout-stream, the dazzle of the buttercups, the rocks of the old ‘wild men’; the calling of the cuckoos and yaffles, the hooting of the owls; and the red moon peeping out of the velvet dark at the living whiteness of the blossom; and her face just out of reach at the window, lost in it love-look; and her heart against his, her lips answering his, under the apple tree- all this besieged him. Yet he lay inert. What was it which struggled against pity and this feverish longing, and kept him there paralysed in the warm sand.”
（科教范文网http://fw.NSEAC.com编辑发布） Ashurst pitied Megan again. He couldn’t get rid of the memory of her. The sense of guilty made him searching for her again, but in fact he was afraid to see her again. He didn’t know whether “to take her train home; or to take train himself and go back to the farm.” He searched Megan again and again just in his heart, but not in real action. Maybe in his heart he called out again and again—Megan, come back to me! But he just lay inert in the sand and struggled against pity and feverish longing. He was hypocritical and deceived himself as well as others.
