The Return of the Native

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Summary: Return of the Native Review
Review: In this not so thrilling, spinetingling book, the three main characters are caught up in a love triangle. While the intro of the book is tragicly boring, taking a chapter and a half just to describe the heath. It's dialogue will leave you slumbering. The ending of the book will also make you think what the heck was this author on when he wrote this.

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Summary: Review on The Return of the Native
Review: Thomas Hardy's "The Return of the Native" was to me both exciting and yet surprising too. Hardy's novel which was quite similar to an everyday soap opera contained all of the soap opera characteristics such as, love both forbidden and true, deceit, death, and happiness as well. The setting of the play which occurs in a years time, happens in a small town where everyone seems to know everyone elses problems except there own. This story was a perfect example of the story of "Romeo and Juliet" (written soap opera style).

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Summary: Review on "The Return of the Native"
Review: In Thomas Hardy's novel, "The Return of the Native," he portrays many different qualities of life. Throughout the book, the characters and the places, lessons can be learned. From love to hate, jealousy to confidence, nurturing to hurt, it confronts all.

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Summary: The Return of Adolescence: Eustacia's Refusal to Grow Up
Review: The novel deals with modern day issues and concerns in a 19th century european-heath setting. Native, has some interesting events and characters, but the setting description is too verbose. While the main characters are together, Hardy neglects all "love" human emotions. Eustacia loves Paris, no man. Hardy does not focus on the inner, only the outer side of life. Hardy neglects some of the characters such as thomasin and the reddleman, leaving us to think "who were they?" Just skip the first couple chapters and read "Return of the Native"

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Summary: Conflicts of the Native
Review: Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy is one of the most exciting, dramatic, and sad novels I have read upto date. Thomas Hardy creates Eustacia to bring a heroine into the story, also to bring excitement and to create confusion for many characters. Clym is the native that returns to the heath. Clym meets Eustacia and there is an immediate attraction between the two. Hardy also creates the character Wildeve, to confuse Eustacia. The book displays great examples of conflicts, for example Mrs.Yeobright and Eustacia, Eustacia and Susan, and Eustacia against herself. The reoccurring theme that Hardy shows in the book seems to happen to be somehow related to Eustacia. I recommend that you read the book to experience the feelings that Eustacia went through.

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Summary: A Modern Day Soap Opera
Review: The Return of a Native, a fabolously written novel by the late Thomas Hardy, is a tale of forbidden love between Eustacia and Wildeve. Although the rather long descriptions of the heath tended to drag, the story in itself is tragic. In the beginning Eustacia and Wildeve were secretly seeing each other, until Wildeve marries Thomasin. Eustacia, desperately seeking a better life, marries Clym. This is the true beginning of the story. Hardy was ahead of his time writing this novel with the traditional twists of a modern soap opera. A tale of forbidden love, constant longing for better things, and mere gossip makes this story quite a read!!!!

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Summary: A good book, an unlikely hero
Review: In the book "Return of the Native", Thomas Hardy created a good premise and characters one can grow quite attached to. It seems, however, that it takes a long time for the book to get into the plot and once it's there it moves very quickly. Once the book reaches the plot, some reader might get lost. The plot seemed to revolve around the love web between Clym, Eustacia, Wildeve, and Thomasin. Seeing the way they treated each other, many readers would probably question the existance of true love between any of those four. Many may feel that the only character who showed true love was Diggory Venn, a reddleman considered scum by the general society around him. He didn't try to have Thomasin when he knew she would not be happy with him. He even helped her try to have a good relationship with Wildeve. Though you may find yourself attached to the characters, the kindest heart beats within the lowly reddleman, who probably was part of the best love affair Hardy created in his book.

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Summary: The best novel I have read since Madame Bovary.....
Review: I absolutely devoured this novel! I love depressing books, so this one was definitely for me. Eustacia reminded me of myself sometimes. I loved this novel so much that I even bought the made-for-tv movie! I cried. And if you really liked this book, then you should try Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. Eustacia reminded me so much of Emma Bovary!

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Summary: You'll love Eustacia's character!
Review: When a long time Native of the heath comes back to 'visit' (Clym) he changes the lives of people that he doesn't realize he's had an affect on. Eustacia for instance is a character who reminds me of many teenage girls my age. Most of the time they don't know what they want and when they finally get it they don't want it anymore. To Eustacia life always has to be a challenge. Eustacia thinks that Clym is the only person who is 'worthy' enough for her but she is soon comes to reality when she finds that out that she won't be leaving the heath. Thomasin and Eustacia don't associate much in this book but Eustacia ends up giving her away to her ex-boyfriend Damon Wildeve! What's up with that? All I have to say is read this book. Eustacia's attitude and indifferent behavior makes it all worth while!

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Summary: Traditional Hardy
Review: I think all of Hardy's descriptive settings and characters made this a great novel. I read the TESS OF THE DURBERVILLES and loved it, now I have another of his books to admire.