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of feeling, Durham made a little of them and said so. His replies were equally long. Maurice never let them out of his pocket, changing them
from suit to suit and even pinning them in his pyjamas when he went to bed. He would wake up and touch them and, watching the reflections from
the street lamp, remember how he used to feel afraid as a little boy p. 52.
Clive has expressed his feeling of love to Maurice. At first Maurice rejects him but soon he is aware that he also has the same feeling to Clive. They care for
each other. Maurice is as romantic as Clive when showing their caring. He tried to answer
Clive‘s letter. Already he feared to ring false. In the evening
he received another, composed of the words ―Maurice I love you‖. He answered, ―Clive, I love you.‖ Then, they wrote everyday and for
all their care created new images in each other hearts. Letters distort even more quickly than silence p. 81.
From those descriptions above, we can see that Maurice is a caring person.
He cares about his mother and his two sisters because they are the only closest family he knows well. He also cares about Clive who becomes his closest friend at
first then turns to be his boyfriend.
5. Jealous
The gay relationship of Maurice and Clive has been broken up. Maurice considers that Ada, his sister, is one of the causes that made Clive left him. It is
because Clive was with Ada before Maurice meets him. He thinks that Ada has said something to Clive that influences Clive to break up the relation between
them. It makes Maurice feels so angry to his sister. He suffered hideously and before he could stop himself had spoken words
that neither even forgot. He accused his sister of corrupting his friend. He let her suppose that Clive had complained of her conduct and gone back to
town on that account. Her gentle nature was so outraged that she could not defend herself, but sobbed and sobbed, and implored him not to speak to
her mother, just as if she were guilty. He assented: jealousy had maddened him p.130.
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Maurice has heard that Clive will marry a girl. However, Clive has not introduced the girl to him yet. One day, Clive phones him and asks for lunch but
Maurice refuses it. Then Clive gives Anne, his girlfriend, change to speak to Maurice, Anne is so nice and introduces herself to Maurice.
―You‘re the eighth friend of Clive I‘ve talked to in this way this morning‖ ―The eighth?‖
―I can‘t hear.‖ ―I said the eighth.‖
―Oh yes, now I‘ll give Clive a turn. Goodbye.‖ Clive resumed. ―By the way, can you come down to Penge next week? It‘s
short notice, but later all will be chaos.‖ ―I‘m afraid I can‘t do that very well. Mr. Hill‘s getting married too, so that
I‘m more or less busy here ‖ pp. 48-49.
Maurice feels jealous and upset because he becomes the eighth friend of Clive that Anne called that morning. As Maurice knows, he is the closest friend of
Clive who should be the first person knowing the good news of Clive‘s marriage. However, Maurice tends to conceal his upset feeling by pretending that he is busy.
6. Sensitive
Maurice is a sensitive person. He is easily touched with a condition that makes him uncomfortable. It can be seen when George, his gardener boy, left his
home. George left home when Maurice was not at home. He is so sad and asks his mother about the reasons of George‘s leaving.
―Mother, where‘s George?‖ ―He left last week.‖
―Why did George leave?‖ he asked. ―He was getting too old. Howell always changes the boy every two years.‖
―Oh.‖ A sob interrupted her.
―Morrie, darling—― The little boy was in tears p. 17.
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Maurice‘s sensitivity can also be seen through his reaction toward his family. It is found how Maurice reacts to his family who have mispronounced
Clive‘s name. Maurice goes home and talks to his family about his friend .
On reaching home he talked about Durham until the fact that he had a friend penetrated into the minds of his family. Ada wondered whether it
was brother to a certain Miss Durham-not but what she was an only child- while Mrs Hall confused it with a don named Cumberland. Maurice was
deeply wounded. One strong feeling arouses another, and a profound irritation against his womenkind set in. His relations with them hitherto
had been trivial but stable, but it seemed iniquitous that anyone should mispronounce the name of the man who was more to him than all the
world. Home emasculated everything p.50.
The quotation shows Maurice‘s reaction toward his family. He is so sensitive and angry when his family mispronounces the name of Clive. He thinks
that if Clive heard this, he will be angry too and Maurice does not want it happens to Clive.
B. The Factors that Make Maurice a Homosexual Person
