Articulating Lawrence’s theories deadens them in the novel. the metaphors become dramatizations of his obscure language rather than open metaphors with the suggestion of what he’s writing about.
Similarly, The Rainbow is only successful because Ursula’s story is unfinished and unresolved. We don’t know what happens to her–only that she has the potential to become a nietzchian woman and able to find true Lawrentian fullfillment in the future. Lawrence must leave that open for the potential to exist. As long as she remains unarticulated, she comes to represent reader’s hopes for themselves and their own potential for change and spiritual growth.
Not just change on an individual level, but through the individuals who change, the potential to change the social structures which are clearly unbalanced and over-masculinized according to Lawrence and Feminists.
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