Faith A. Colburn
Wow! Your question really set me back. I didn't know why, but I had no answer for you. I went to my library and scanned my books--there are more than a thousand of them--and still had no answer--for you or for me.
Then it dawned on me. I really don't often think of characters in couples. Oh, I'm aware of Rochester and Jane Eyre. I've written papers on Catherine and Heathcliff, Leopold and Molly. But gee, I've never thought of them so much as couples as individuals interacting in often dysfunctional ways.
So after a couple of days' thought, I have to say I really do like Lady Chatterly and the gamekeeper because of the energy, honesty, and just plain LIFE in their relationship. I love the relationship between Hank Rearden and Dagny Taggert in Atlas Shrugged, even though Ayn Rand preferred John Galt. I love that relationship because of Rearden's belief that we choose the people we love as "an expression of our mind's highest values."
Then it dawned on me. I really don't often think of characters in couples. Oh, I'm aware of Rochester and Jane Eyre. I've written papers on Catherine and Heathcliff, Leopold and Molly. But gee, I've never thought of them so much as couples as individuals interacting in often dysfunctional ways.
So after a couple of days' thought, I have to say I really do like Lady Chatterly and the gamekeeper because of the energy, honesty, and just plain LIFE in their relationship. I love the relationship between Hank Rearden and Dagny Taggert in Atlas Shrugged, even though Ayn Rand preferred John Galt. I love that relationship because of Rearden's belief that we choose the people we love as "an expression of our mind's highest values."
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