He goes swimming in a nearby cove and is swept out to sea. He tells Bathsheba that he had only ever truly loved Fanny, and that Bathsheba means nothing to him.Īfter arranging for a headstone for Fanny, Troy walks off toward Budmouth. In the process, she figures out Troy’s connection to Fanny, which is confirmed when Troy returns and finds Fanny in the coffin. When news arrives that Fanny has died in a poorhouse in nearby Casterbridge, Bathsheba takes charge of collecting the body and arranging the burial. Unbeknownst to Bathsheba, Troy’s old lover was Fanny Robin, a former servant of Bathsheba’s who mysteriously disappeared. Further, Troy still has feelings for an old girlfriend of his. Boldwood is distraught and falls into a deep depression, to the point of neglecting his crops, and he loses the majority of his yield to a heavy storm.įollowing their marriage, however, Troy becomes more interested in drinking and gambling than settling down, and Bathsheba quickly grows to regret marrying him. Troy is charming and passionate, and when he pursues Bathsheba, despite the warnings of those around her, she falls in love with him. In that time, Bathsheba happens to run into Sergeant Troy, a young military man from the area home on leave. He pursues her until she finally relents and agrees to consider marrying him in five or six weeks if he agrees to leave her alone until then.
Boldwood, a very serious man, believes the valentine to be a true declaration of love and becomes infatuated with Bathsheba. One Valentine’s Day, Bathsheba decides to send a valentine in jest to her neighbor, William Boldwood, another wealthy local farmer, because Boldwood never takes notice of her in the markets or in church. Gabriel finds lodging and becomes a reliable worker for Bathsheba their relationship remains professional. The townspeople, unaware of their history, call for Bathsheba to hire the heroic Gabriel as a shepherd, to which she assents. The barn coincidentally belongs to Bathsheba, who has inherited her uncle’s farm. Spotting a barn on fire, he leaps to work to save it. Some months later, he is travelling to look for work when he finds himself in Weatherbury. Shortly thereafter, Gabriel’s sheepdog in training mistakenly drives his entire flock over a cliff, bankrupting Gabriel. He quickly falls in love and asks her to marry him however, she rejects his proposal and soon moves away to nearby Weatherbury. One day, he makes the acquaintance of Bathsheba Everdene, who is staying with her aunt nearby, when she saves him from accidental suffocation.
The novel begins in the town of Norcombe, where Gabriel Oak is a young farmer.
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