Issues of power and rebirth are at the heart of D. H. Lawrence's short
             stories, "The Horse Dealer's Daughter" and "The Blind Man." The themes of
             these stories present characters that undergo a transformation through the
             process of touching another individual. Lawrence's attention to detail
             emphasizes how each character experiences a dramatic change. This paper
             will examine how each character exists in a dark world and through the
             experience of touching another human being, their lives are changed
             Lawrence uses dark images to convey the world in "The Horse Dealer's
             Daughter." Lawrence uses dismal and depressing images to describe Mabel's
             surroundings. For example, the family has fallen into "debt and
             threatening" (The Horse Dealer's Daughter 126). The family never received
             any company and Mabel had no female friends. We are also told that she
             "lived in the memory of her mother" (126). For example, we are told that
             her father and brothers "talked at her and round her for so many years,
             that she hardly heard them at all" (123). Mabel is also depicted with
             negative images. For instance, she sits "immutable" (123) "like one
             condemned" (123) at the kitchen table when he brother speaks to her. In
             these scenes, Mabel's life is bereft of practically every emotion,
             Similarly, Maurice Pervin lives in "times of "dark, palpable joy" (The
             Blind Man 108). Occasionally, Maurice experienced fits of depression,
             which are described as a "black misery, when his own life was a torture to
             him" (The Blind Man 108). His depression caused Isabel to feel burdened
             with a "weariness, a terrible ennui" (The Blind Man 108). It was so bad at
             time, that Isabel "wished she could be snatched away off the earth
             altogether, anything rather than live at this cost" (108). Maurice is
             described as a "terrible joy" and a "terrifying burden" (The Blind Man 109)
             for Isabel. These descriptions not build ...