How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
It was a strange pallid figure lifting and falling, bending so the rain beat and glistened on the full haunches, swaying up again and coming belly-forward through the rain, then stooping again so that only the full loins and buttocks were offered in a kind of homage towards him, repeating a wild obeisance. (15.96)
Connie's out dancing naked in the rain like a total lunatic, and Mellors is admiring the sight. There's something funny about the way he talks about her though: the figure is "it," not "she," and he uses words like "haunches,""belly," and "loins." It sounds more like he's about to butcher her than make love to her.
Quote #8
"Tha's got such a nice tail on thee," he said, in the throaty caressive dialect. "Tha's got the nicest arse of anybody. It's the nicest, nicest woman's arse as is! An' ivery bit of it is woman, woman sure as nuts. Tha'rt not one o' them button-arsed lasses as should be lads, are ter! Tha's got a real soft sloping bottom on thee, as a man loves in 'is guts. It's a bottom as could hold the world up, it is!" (15.110)
Mellors likes big butts, and he cannot lie (you get the sense that D. H. Lawrence shares his admiration). No skinny jazz-girls for him; he likes them soft, round, and old-fashioned. Real women have curves, indeed.
Quote #9
"An' if tha s***s an' if tha pisses, I'm glad. I don't want a woman as couldna s*** nor piss."(15.111)
Sometimes, bodies do gross things. That's just the way bodies are, and if you want to live the life of the body you have to accept it. In the immortal words of the famous children's book, "Everybody poops."