Far from the madding crowd

Thomas Hardy has also shown how kind Gabriel is in another part of the novel when he sees Fanny in weather bury on the streets and gives her a shilling, even though he did not know her, he feels sorry for her because she was is a very bad state. Fanny accepted what she got from Gabriel happily. In the novel Gabriel says “since you are not very well off, perhaps you would accept this trifle from me. It is only a shilling, but it all I have to spare”. This shows that even if he hasn’t got much money he still gives hand to people, to he feel is in need.

Francis Troy is a very charming and handsome person but I feel that he is very irresponsible. At the beginning of the novel he fell in love Fanny Robin and gets her pregnant. At first he plans to marry her, but just because Fanny makes a mistake by going to the wrong church he refuses to marry her. This shows that Troy is not a very nice person he is not very patient and doesn’t have the ability to forgive other’s mistakes.  He also marries Bathsheba forgetting Fanny. He doesn’t even feel bad for leaving Fanny.

Even though he Married Bathsheba with interest he also treated her very badly and starts to lose all her money on races. He didn’t also care about Bathsheba’s life getting ruined because of him. Troy was always drinking heavily, once at his and Bathsheba’s wedding party, at the end of the night he told all the women to go to bed while the men stay drinking all night. While they were drinking there was a big storm and the ricks (wheat and barley) were uncovered and if it would have rained then all the hay would have got wet and she would have lost of money, again I feel this is also another good example to show how irresponsible Troy was.  

Earlier in the novel Fanny come to visit Troy, he quiet does not realise it’s Fanny. He asked “what girl are you”. He doesn’t remember the fact, that he had promised Fanny that he would marry her even though he mentioned it lots of times that he would marry her. This shows that Troy does not stick to his words.

Troy wasn’t shown as the terrible person through out the novel, especially after Fanny’s death. He gets a tombstone for her and plants flowers on her grave. This shows that he hasn’t always been a cold hearted person and that he did have a soft corner for Fanny because he did love her after all.