Eustacia Vye
In my opinion Eustacia Vye lives in a dream world, she's basically waiting for her tall dark stranger to come and sweep her off her feet, in the meantime she has chosen to pass her days on Egdon. This is the place she so often claims to hate, " The Heath is a cruel taskmaster to me"
She thought with the arrival of Clym life on the heath would become more bearable, the fact that she saw him as an escape helped this, before she even met him she had already concocted her plan being, Clym was going to fall in love with her, and then they together would leave the Heath behind for the bright lights of Paris. " Having won by he own unaided self a man who was her perfect complement in attainment appearance an age- just how she imagined it only they didn't live happily ever after She never for one minute thought that Clym would change his mind, this is because she underestimated his love for the heath. " she had undoubtedly begun to love him. She loved him pertly because he was exceptional in this scene, partly as she had from the first instinctively determined to love him chiefly because she was in desperate need of loving somebody." It wasn't really him who she loved rather the aura that surrounded him " in his new pursuit, he could not but perceive at moments that she loved him rather as a visitant from a gay world to which she rightly belonged. She holds him in a light that Paris and abroad had given him instead of real. Though I should like Paris I love you for yourself alone. To be your wife and live in Paris would be heaven to me but I would rather live in a hermitage here than not be yours at all. Eustacia's first priority is leaving the Heath I believe if Wildeve had proposed they leave the Heath for Paris instead of America she would have jumped at the chance. When Clym asks her to be his wife she says "I must think" it's what she has always wanted, but even at this point she doesn't give him a straight answer, and whilst she's "thinking" she asks Clym to "Speak of Paris" this is what she was concerned about. Even after she has said yes she follows it up by "Now tell me of the Louvre"
In my opinion Eustacia Vye lives in a dream world, she's basically waiting for her tall dark stranger to come and sweep her off her feet, in the meantime she has chosen to pass her days on Egdon. This is the place she so often claims to hate, " The Heath is a cruel taskmaster to me"
She thought with the arrival of Clym life on the heath would become more bearable, the fact that she saw him as an escape helped this, before she even met him she had already concocted her plan being, Clym was going to fall in love with her, and then they together would leave the Heath behind for the bright lights of Paris. " Having won by he own unaided self a man who was her perfect complement in attainment appearance an age- just how she imagined it only they didn't live happily ever after She never for one minute thought that Clym would change his mind, this is because she underestimated his love for the heath. " she had undoubtedly begun to love him. She loved him pertly because he was exceptional in this scene, partly as she had from the first instinctively determined to love him chiefly because she was in desperate need of loving somebody." It wasn't really him who she loved rather the aura that surrounded him " in his new pursuit, he could not but perceive at moments that she loved him rather as a visitant from a gay world to which she rightly belonged. She holds him in a light that Paris and abroad had given him instead of real. Though I should like Paris I love you for yourself alone. To be your wife and live in Paris would be heaven to me but I would rather live in a hermitage here than not be yours at all. Eustacia's first priority is leaving the Heath I believe if Wildeve had proposed they leave the Heath for Paris instead of America she would have jumped at the chance. When Clym asks her to be his wife she says "I must think" it's what she has always wanted, but even at this point she doesn't give him a straight answer, and whilst she's "thinking" she asks Clym to "Speak of Paris" this is what she was concerned about. Even after she has said yes she follows it up by "Now tell me of the Louvre"
