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The Children in "Sons and Lovers" by D. H. Lawerence and "What Maisie Knew" The characters in Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence and the characters in What Maisie Knew each have a special meaning. They all seem to be interwoven with one another portraying a new c ....

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.... that Maisie experiences in her life exist because of her parents extremely vicious hatred for each other. They use Maisie as a “vessel for bitterness” (13). To Beale and Ida, Maisie was just a tool that they used to hurt the other person. Eventually, Maisie figured out that they were using her to be the bearer of brutily hateful messages. Consequently, she learned not to deliver such messages. This made her parents very angry and they decided that she had “grown incredably dull”. Thus, Maisie realized “ They had wanted her not for any good they could do her, but for harm they could, with her unconscious aid, do each oth ....