Do you feel Clym has been ‘ill used by fortune’?

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Do you feel Clym has been ‘ill used by fortune’?

        Throughout the novel Clym’s circumstances change and so his character changes to.  And this bad hand that Clym has been dealt by fate all starts with Eustacia.

        ‘He, means, sir, that the lonesome dark-eyed creature up there that some say is a witch.’

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This is a description of Eustacia by the rustic chorus. And this description gives us an insight into what the others think of Eustacia.  And she is seen as a outsider who never makes the effort to try to fit in.  And it is her character that adds to Clym’s misfortune.  As soon as Eustacia hears of Clym she decides that he is the man for her and she decides that she want him and that she is going to get him and she almost becomes fixated with him. But the contrasts between them are not small things that are ...

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