After reading DH Lawrence's story "The Horse Trader's Daughter" in English class, you said that you had been quite shocked when Mabel attempted suicide. When reading the story for the first time, it may not be entirely clear that Mabel thinks there is nothing else to see in her life but to die. However, looking through history again, I think there is plenty of evidence to support this idea. By analyzing the bleak descriptions of the location and Mabel's lack of any relationship with her family, much evidence and clues are provided that point to Mabel's suicidal journey. First, look at the description of the dark setting and the atmosphere which gives off a sense of death. and depression. As the story begins, we find Mabel and her three brothers sitting at the dining room table "with its heavy mahogany furniture, [which] seemed to be waiting to be removed" (Lawrence 1). The heavy furniture represents Mabel and while she bathes in the water of the pool, she commits suicide. As we follow Mabel walking outside, the weather is described as "a gray, wintry day, with sad, dark green fields and an atmosphere blackened by the smoke from the foundries not far away" (Lawrence 5). The constant reference to time and dark, gray and sad landscapes again emphasizes the darkness and depression that reigns inside Mabel. When Fergusson, the doctor, comes out, he thinks: “It was getting late in the afternoon. It was gray, sleepy, and wintry, with a slow, damp, heavy cold that pressed in and numbed every faculty” (Lawrence 6). It's a great description of what it feels like to try to save Mabel from the pond. Additionally, as Fergusson watches Mabel walk towards the pond, he describes her as a "figure in black" (L...... middle of paper ...... of the peace of things that are dead is a big indicator that Mabel will do anything, attempt suicide, to have peace and happiness in the world of her mother and the dead. After analyzing the story, a clear path can be followed which you. alerts and prepares you for Mabel's suicide attempt. Lawrence cleverly uses the setting to help the reader enter the dark, gray, sad world that Mabel sees herself in. her lack of relationship with her family shows that she is not attached to the things of this living world but that she longs for the dead world of her mothers. Mabel attempted suicide because she saw it as her only one. way to get out of this state of depression into which she had fallen Works cited Lawrence, DH “The Horse Dealer's Daughter”. Matters Ltd., nd Web, August 22.. 2012.