Published in 1913,Sons and Lovers,D.H Lawrences first major novel,is a novel concerned with a tragically damaged hero--Paul Morel.He is the youngest and adored son of a mother who has married beneath herself.Of the failed middle class,she is educated to a degree,refined with pretensions toward the higher matters of life.As a girl,she is attracted to Walter Morel,a miner who possessed a passionate exuberance she missed on the frayed edges of the middle class.Their marriage,however,soon disintegrates under the pressures of poverty and unfulfilled expectations.As the father and mother grow apart and the older children leave home,Mrs Morel turns toward her youngest child,mapping out his life and intending to free him from the ignominy of the working class.She tries to pushes Paul her son into the middle class.In fact,she pushes Paul Morel into a position of isolation,singleness where he is wholly dependent on his mother,so that her death leaves him alone and abandoned.Outside the working class community there is nothing--a vacuum.Sensitive and frail,Paul finds his fathers drunkenness and rough-edged masculinity repellent.He is baptised into violence and horror in a fright between the parents.Bereft of his fathers influence,Pauls life becomes dominated by his mother.Smothered by her warm maternity,cut off from the real world,he returns her ardent affection,and they form an abnormal fixation.The influence of the mother is so strong that Paul withdraws from Miriam,the first woman to attract Paul and breaks with another woman,Clara,who provides him with an adult sexual experience unlike that which he had with Miriam.He could not love any woman.The peculiar and absorbing passion between mother and son produces devastating results.It makes Paul become a wreck and a ruin.No mater how much Paul loves his mother,he is the product of the mother and father.Both natures of Walter Morel and Mrs Morel have been warring within him.In other words,the opposition between his parents is also responsible for his deep and destructive self-division.He is quite decisively overbalanced in favor of opposite forces,namely,the physical force that controls Walter and the intellectual force that guides Gertrude.He is tortured within.So we can know Paul Morel in Sons and Lovers is doomed to be a tragic hero.