subject: The Content Overview of the Book "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" (4) [print this page] The Content Overview of the Book "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" (4)
At the night of their wedding, Tess told the whole story to Angle. "The fire in the grate looked impishdemoniacally funny, as if it did not care in the least about her strait All material objects around announced their irresponsibility And yet nothing had changed since the moments when he had been kissing her But the essence of things had changed." Angle was stunned. He cannot believe what he has heard. He said the woman he had loved was not Tess but "another woman in her shape." Tess was grief-stricken and asked for forgiveness. She told Angle that she was ready to do anything he thinks was right, "I will obey you like your wretched slave, even if your order is to lie down and die." But it cannot make Angle stay. He had gone.
After Angle went to Brazil, Tess came to woke in Flintcomb-Ash, the farm on which Marian had been working. She must have a job to feed herself because she shamed to have some financial aids from her parents. During the working period, Tess met Alec again and found that Alec became a minister. "Since Tess has neither seen nor heard from Alec since she left Trantridge, she stares in disbelief at the man in front of her. His dandyish dress has changed to a version of minister's clothing. His handsome and sensual face is still passionate, but the passion now is spiritual and godly."
Due to the financial difficult, Tess came to live with Alec again after her father passed away. Angle, at the other side, in Brazil, was not very good and he at last realized that he really loved Tess. For this reason he came back to England and went to search for Tess who he wanted to marry again. But when he found Tess in a small hotel, she told him the following words, "It is too late. Too late, too late! I waited and waited for you. But you did not come! And I wrote to you, and you did not come! He kept on saying you would never come anymore, and that I was a foolish woman. He was very kind to me, and to mother, and to all of us after father's death. He has won me back to him." Then Tess was gone.
