Lawrence pays particular attention to the spiritual development of Ursula. It is not uncommon for his characters to fluctuate between devotion and faithlessness. Importantly, however, their beliefs are never static and always developing. To varying degrees, they believe and participate in the Anglican church. Lawrence dedicates much attention in The Rainbow to describing his character's relationships with religion. Lawrence’s characters crave love and desperately seek it out, even if that means risking the negative aspects of it. Instead, he demonstrates that love is complex and that moments of anger-or worse, hatred-are hardly uncommon in relationships. Through the depiction of relationships like that of Will and Anna, Lawrence pushes back against unrealistic depictions of perfect love. Yet Will and Anna stay together and come to raise a large, mostly happy, family. Anna soon begins to speak of “the tragedy of her young married life” (163). They fight violently and Will is “always ready to burst out murderously against her” (158). While they begin their marriage in intense infatuation, their relationship soon becomes full of anger and resentment. Lawrence’s complex depiction of love can be found most obviously in the relationship between Anna and Will. Indeed, the word “hatred” recurs with notable frequency in The Rainbow. Just as his characters fall in love, so too can they fall into hatred or resentment of one another. Still, he does not shy away from portraying the more negative side of relationships. Lawrence is a deeply romantic-even erotic-writer.

The rainbow novel by dh lawrence