Hardy works to show readers how the characters are constructed by their environment and how they must struggle to survive. The reader watches Grace’s lack of certainty about herself, yet her ability to be compassionate and open to other females in the novel such as Sukie and Felice, even though these women were intimately involved with her husband. Her identity is an issue, as she does not know how to live harmoniously with the people and place of Hintock as a character like Giles does. At the end of the novel, the reader has seen Grace be removed from her home, educated, and then replanted in her home. While it is not surprising that the ending is “tragic,” I would like to think about what Hardy intended the reader walk away with at the end of the novel when the immoral, villain like and unfaithful Fitzpiers reunites with Grace. This paper seeks to explore what the conclusion of The Woodlanders means in for the reader.
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