Ticket,please读后感

Deep thinking on

Ticket, Please

Recently, I have read a short novel called

Ticket, please,

written by

David Herbert Lawrence. It is a story about a male and some females. It

happens in World War I, when all able-bodied

men go to the war front

and those who are unfit for service stay in the country to do some work

and also at that time women do some work. John Thomas is the hero and

he is an amorous and irresponsible man. In the novel, it describes that “he

flirt with the girl conductor in the morning, and walks out with them in

the dark night, when they leave their tram-car at the depot. Of course, the

girls

quit

the

service

frequently.

Then

he

flirts

and

walks

with

the

newcomer”.

From

it,

we

can

easily

know

what

kind

of

person

he

is.

Though

he

is

not

a

good

man,

he

is

attractive.

Even

Annie,

a

Tartar

is

attracted by him in the end. At first Annie is interested in him and Keep

him at arm's length deliberately. But after his cunning pursuit for her, she

falls

in

love

with

him.

However,

when

she

wants

to

take

an

intelligent

interest in him, he just wants to remain a nocturnal presence, and decided

to leave her.

Feeling

so sad

and

being hurt,

she determines to

have her

own back. She unites with other girls whom he has hurts. They use tricks

to

keep

him

in

a

waiting

room

and

beat

him

fiercely.

They

ask

him

to

choose only one girl. And of course, he revolts them like crazy. At last, he

chooses

Annie,

with

strange

and

disparaging

voice.

In

the

end

of

this

story, because those girls can't do anything with him except beating him,

they have no alternative choice but letting him go.

On the surface, this is only a story about a man who cheats and plays

with

women's

feelings.

However,

on

a

deeper

level,

combining

the

background

at

that

time

and

the

author's

life

experience,

we

can

find

many things below the surface, that is, sex and equal. Lawrence was born

to

poor

parents

and

his

all

life

was

in

the

great

social

and

political

upheavals.

Also,

he

experienced

the

First

World

War.

His

many

novels

have a melancholy tone, and many of them are about sex. This novel is

also

about

sex

and,

what’s

more,

about

equality.

John

Thomas,

the

inspector,

to

some

extent

is

the

representative

of

males.

And

those

conductors,

including

Annie,

are

the

representative

of

females.

On

one

hand,

from

this

story,

we

can

see

males

have

the

absolute

advantage.

Though those girls are hurt by John and they want to revenge him, they

have to give in in the end. I think those sentences are very well written:

“But

while

the

y

can

vilify

him,

disrobe

him,

pummel

him,

they

cannot

impose the final humiliation and rape him.” “The girls, especially Annie,

are forced to recognize the limits of their power. The single source of the

defeat

is

their

failure

to

be

a

man.”(copy

from

the

book)

What

a

deep

going analysis! I am really impresses by the two sentences. Indeed, for a

long time before, females had few rights and were submissive to males.

Females

could

only

stay

at

home,

attending

their

husband

and

their

children.

Males

were

the

central

person

in

families

who

could

work