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By Andrew Fitzgerald - April 10, 2003

Hardy's Fatalistic View of Life As Shown Through... Love and Modernity: Analysis of Relationships in... The Unreliable World in The Return of the Native Vying and Dying to Leave The Other Eustacia Love Triangles and the Complicating Factor of the...

John Gardner once said that there are only two types of stories: someone leaving home or a stranger coming into town; The Return of the Native meets both of these in a way. Eustacia wishes to leave, while Clym returns, but seems to be almost a different person. Hardy's work offers a unique insight into the plight not only of a man trying to return…

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