That Laning Fable

D. H. Lawrence had his last novel Lady Chatterley's Lover rewritten three times. There are many differences in the three versions in which the main characters, plots and connotation are essentially changed. According to the change of the main characters and combining other elements of the three versions, the essay tries to analyze and compare the internal variation and connection of the three drafts under the social and epochal background of Lawrence, to show the author's thoughts changed by the factors of person, society or other effects during the period of the novel writing, and then to reveal a new area of Lawrence's creative methods.The essay falls into three sections. In section one, the author introduces how Lawrence created Lady Chatterley's Lover, the main contents of the three versions and the meaning of this essay. In section two, by analyzing the variations of the character-making, mind and surrounding description in the three versions, the author shows the change of Lawrence's mind when he was writing the novel: from wanting to use class struggle to solute mankind's conflict in the first draft to hoping through mingling the spirit and sex of the man and the woman to reach a reconcilable relationship of mankind in the third version. Along with that was the change of Lawrence's means of art: from realism to the combination of modernization and realism. In section three, the author reveals two parallel and crossed clues appearing during Lawrence's creation of the novel: the mutual influence, reciprocal infiltration, and interaction of his philosophic thinking and literary creation.