2. _VASANTHI U

3. PHYSICAL CHARMS MENTAL QUALITIES SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY MELANCHOLY TEMPERAMENT ENCOUNTER WITH ALEC

4. RELATIONSHIP WITH ANGEL ENDURANCE ANIMALISM MODESTY AND HUMILITY A PURE WOMEN

5. There are moments of unmistakable pessimism ( in the character of TESS ), when even the sense of justice coldly and duly confesses that it is not worthwhile to be outraged by the world it contemplates. Fortunately such moments are few. _ LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE

6. What matters in TESS OF THE d’Urbervilles what pulses most strongly an gain our deepest imaginative complicity, is the figure of TESS herself. A victim of civilization, she is also a gift of civilization. _ IRVING HOWE

7. THE END