Tickets Please -DH Lawrence
Tickets, please was the story I liked best so far. Although the writer has a negative attitude towards women, I still like it. D.H. Lawrence does not use as much difficult words as Joseph Conrad or James Joyce. He also does not provide as much background information as those writers so the story gets rolling from the very beginning. The story is set in the Midlands during the Great War. The main places of event in the story are on the tram, at the fair and at the depot of the tram station. The combination of the Midlands and the Great War make the setting somewhat gloomy. It is probably set in winter because the nights were “howling cold, black, and windswept.” Later on in the story there is spoken about the “black, drizzling darkness.” D.H. Lawrence describes the setting as a very dark, depressing place and time. The villages through which the tram drives are not described in a positive way as well. The villages are described as ugly, the marketplaces as stark, grimy and cold. The tramline itself is even declared to be the most dangerous tram-service in England so the whole setting is somewhat shady. There are not a lot of characters. The main characters are John Thomas and Annie but there are other characters as well; Nora, Polly, Emma, Laura and Muriel. John Thomas Raynor is an inspector of the tram-service. Because of his job, he gets in contact with a lot of the girls that work on the tram as conductors. John Thomas is a good-looking man and is well aware of that. He always tries to get involved with the girl conductors. He is not really interested in them but only wants to go to bed with them.