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His dream of success and fame had been very real and dear to him, and the realization of the inevitable postponement of his long anticipated
matriculation, the doorway to all the other great things, took him abruptly like an actual physical sensation in his chest.
He sprang up, pen in hand, in them midst of his corrections, and began pacing up and down the room. ‘What a fool I have been’ he cried. ‘What a
fool I have been’ p. 38. It can be seen that the greatness of his dreams wake him up, but the matter is he
comes back to his sense after separating from Ethel. He cannot keep his principles when he falls in love. The only way if he wants to be a principled person is he
should leave her for a while but it is difficult to do because the more he meets her, the more he loves for her.
Through his thoughts and manners, it can be seen that Mr. Lewisham is doubtful. When he decides to pursue much knowledge, he cannot keep it as a
promise for himself when love comes to him. He even forgets what his goals are. However, when love gives him unpleasant ending, he decides to forget about love
and comes back to his study.
3. Sensitive
Before Mr. Lewisham moves to South Kensington, he lives in Whortley. He never pays attention to his environment. He is such an introvert person. There, his
public place for his interaction with others is only at his university where he works as an asssitant master. Even if he is on the way to his home, he will read a book
along the street p. 19. However, his charateristic changes into sensitive. He begins paying atttention to the social gap around his environment that he cannot see
it clearly when working in Whortley. Studying in South Kensington has opened his mind about how the real society is.
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He had begun to realize certain aspects of our social order that Whortley did not demonstrate, begun to feel something of the dull stress deepening to
absolute wretchedness and pain, which is the colour of so much human life in modern London. One vivid contrast hung in his mind symbolical. On the
one hand were the coalies of the Westbourne Park yards, on the strike and gaunt and hungry, children begging in the black slush and starving loungers
outside a soup kitchen; and the other, Westbourne Grove, two streets further, a blazing array of crowded shops, a stirring traffic of cabs and
carriages, and such a spate of a standing that a tired students in leaky boots and graceless clothes hurrying home was continually impeded in the whirl
of skirts and parcels are sweetly pretty womanliness” p. 45.
He begins to see how lower people live in an undeserved situation where some children become beggars to satisfy their hunger and how the differences between
the low and the upper class are very great in London. He also thinks about poverty and injustice in a society of how some people should not take many pleasures while
there are many miserable things near them p. 45. Furthermore, he joins a club in his school at South Kensington. He becomes
a member of the Debating Society committee p. 48. There, he expresses his view about Socialism. In fact, he never joins a student organizasation in Whortley. The
memories which he spends are only for his study and his love. However, when he deals with many contrast situations between Whortley and South Kensington, he
builds his new characteristic as a sensitive person. Mr. Lewisham, as a sensitive person, can be seen from his reactions, and
manners. It can be seen how he reacts the social condition differences between Whortley and London. He also delivers his ideas at an organization at his school.
B. Mr. Lewisham’s Conflicts in his Marriage
