The Horse Dealer's Daughter
             The central theme in D.H Lawrence's Horse Dealer's Daughter is love. This desire and need to love is shared between a few people, but the primary holder is Mabel. Mabel is the horse dealer's daughter. She is a young woman in her mid twenties who is in search of her true being. Her father has died and Mabel along with her brothers are in debt and with nowhere to go. Through all the commotion, one person manages to keep her composure and that person is Mabel. This young lady has so much love to give and seemingly nobody to give it to: nobody except for her dead parents, her mother who passed when she was 14 and her recently deceased father, nobody except for her brothers who do not want to be loved. So what does she do? Exactly what anyone in need of loving and being loved would do, she looks for a way out.
             Her brothers do not want the love. They have already packed their bags and are ready to leave the farm. They are ready to leave the place they have called home their whole lives. This is too much. Mabel is not ready. "For months Mabel had been serventless in the big home, keeping the home together in penury for her ineffectual brothers"(375). Mabel has kept the farm and the house together for some time now. She has done this all for what? She has done it all for the love of her family and for the memories that her parents have left behind. She does it for the love. "And she lived in the memory of her mother, who had died when she was fourteen, and who had died when she was fourteen, and whom she had loved. She loved her father too"(376). This is a person who is full of loving and caring. She wishes to keep the wonderful memories of her parents intact. She wishes to care for her brothers, for they are the product of her parents. It does not matter that the house i!
             s going to be turned over to someone else in a matter of weeks. It doe
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