“Tickets, Please! “ By D.H. Lawrence Study Questions Why is it with “bitter hopelessness” that Annie says “I don’t want him?” What is meant by the author’s saying of Annie that “something was broken i

“Tickets, Please! “

By D.H. Lawrence

Study Questions

Why is it with “bitter hopelessness” that Annie says “I don’t want him?”

What is meant by the author’s saying of Annie that “something was broken in her?”

What are Annie’s feelings toward John Thomas at the end of the story?

What are John Thomas’s feelings toward Annie?

What are the main themes of Tickets, Please by D. H. Lawrence? 

Note that the author is constantly telling us what the characters think and what certain of their actions mean: for example, “he was uneasy, mistrusting them” and “yet each one of them … hoped he would look at her.” Even so, the story is vivid in its presentation and remains “dramatic.” Why don’t the author’s comments and interpretations kill the immediacy of this story?