Mr_Shank

In this section of the story, Clym Yeobright and his mother are arguing and fighting constantly. Clym has come back from Paris to Egdon Heath, where he plans on building a boarding school for the children in the heath. But as he becomes reacquanted with everyone again, he meets Eustacia, who he quickly falls for. He has now decided he wants to marry her. Mrs. Yeobright, his mother, disapproves of him building the school and marrying Eustacia, because she believes that he deserves a better life with a better person. He doesn’t listen to her though and so their strained relationship may be destroyed.

In the meantime, Thomasin, Clym’s sister, comes to her mother to complain about her husband, Damon, who is still head over heels for Eustacia. She tells her mother that he is refusing to give her any money. Mrs. Yeobright decides to give her daughter 50 guineas, which is her share of Mrs. Yeobright’s inheritance. She also decides to give the other half of the inheritance to her son, Clym. Damon knows that Mrs. Yeobright is going to give something to Thomasin, so he offers to deliver it to her. But Mrs. Yeobright refuses, for she knows he is not a man of his word.

She decides to give the inheritance to Christian Cantle, Granfer Cantle’s son, who is supposed to deliver 50 guineas to Thomasin and 50 guineas to Clym. On his way to deliver the inheritance, he sees that there is gambling going on at Damon’s hotel. They are gambling over a very expensive rug of some sort. Christian decides to gamble along with them, and luckily wins. However, during his gambling, he let it slip to Damon that he was delivering the 100 guineas to Thomasin and Clym. Damon challenges him to gamble with him, and unfortunately, Christian loses the money to Damon.

Diggory witnessed this and decided to challenge Damon in order to win the money back. They gambled all day until night and Diggory won the money. Not knowing the money was supposed to be split between Mrs. Yeobright’s children, Diggory gave all the money to Thomasin, who keeps all the money for herself, also not knowing half of it belonged to her brother, Clym.

Clym is getting married to Eustacia, Damon is jealous, Thomasin has all of her mother’s inheritance, and Christian Cantle proves to be very unreliable.

Throughout this book, I have run in to many complicated words. The words I chose to define are sullenness, circuitous, contemptuously, contingent, and ruminate.

Sullenness: showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve

Circuitous: roundabout

Contemptuously: showing or expressing disdain

Contingent: uncertain; dependent for existence

Ruminate: meditate or muse; ponder