Lady Chatterley’s Lover

by

D. H. Lawrence

Lady Chatterley’s Lover Symbols

Flowers

Throughout Lady Chatterley’s Lover, flowers symbolize the beauty and strength of nature, even in the face of mechanized threats. Connie’s affair with gamekeeper Oliver Mellors begins in the springtime, as violets and daffodils…

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Clifford’s Wheelchair

Clifford Chatterley’s wheelchair symbolizes the destructive, emasculating dangers of mechanical technology. After Clifford is wounded and paralyzed from the waist down (a result of his time fighting in World War I), he becomes dependent…

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