Synopsis Novel THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE

 It was a Saturday afternoon in early November – 5^th November 1842. Egdon Heath was wild, lonely, and beautiful. People had always lived on Egdon Heath, but it had never changed. The small, round hills of the Heath climbed higher and higher to the highest hill of all. This was Rainbarrowm the highest point of Egdon Heath. A narrow road crossed the Heath at its lowest point.

There was a red man, who called reddleman. The reddleman and his van now near the Quiet Woman inn. Looking up, the reddleman so called Diggory Venn saw an elderly woma and then he stopped his horse. He held up his lantern to see the woman’s face. And she was Mrs. Yeobright of Blooms-End. The reddleman who was help the woman’s niece took them back home. Mrs. Yeobright’s niece, Thomasin Yeobright, decided to marry Damon Wildeve in Budmouth before Wildeve cancelled it and then Thomasin fainted near the Rainbarrow.

Eustacia Vye, the tall young woman whose Wildeve ex-girlfriend, was standing on Rainbarrow. She usually made a bright fire to give a signal to Wildeve. Damon Wildeve lived on Egdon Heath. He was the landlord of the Quiet Woman, a bar. After Wildeve saw the bright fire on the top of the hill Rainbarrow, he quickly moved to there to meet Eustacia.

Diggory Venn was felt unhappy when he had heard conversation between Eustacia and Wildeve. But when he talked to Eustacia about her strange relationship, she she refused to stop met Wildeve. Eustacia was still love Wildeve although Wildeve were going married.

About a week before Christmas, Eustacia took her usual afternoon walk on the Heath. It was the day that Clym Yeobright was returning to Egdon. When she turned to home, she saw three peoplecoming towards her in the evening darkness. They are Mrs. Yeobright, Thomasin Yeobright, and Clym Yeobright, Mrs. Yeobright’s son.

Every Christmas for hundred of years, the villagers of Egdon Heath had acted the old mummers play of Saint George and the Turkish knight. Only the men took part in the play. The play was acted in different houses on different nights. Eustacia wanted to play as the mummers to meet Clym Yeobright, because Mrs. Yeobright wanted them to play in her house.

One fine spring evening, Clym met Eustacia by the pool on Mistover Knap. They stood there together and kissed for the first time. Clym returned to his mother’s house full of joy. When he was in home, he told his mother if he wanted to marry Eustacia Vye. After heard her son wished Mrs. Yeobright was so angry, because she tthought Eustacia was not a good girl.

Mrs. Yeobright had been made unhappy by the marriage of her son and of her niece. But she was a honest woman and had no thought of keeping the money, which had left by her husband, to them. She therefore decided to send the money to her son and her niece by a man, Christian Cantle, a villager who sometimes helped her with her garden. But on his way to Quiet Woman inn, Wildeve and Thomasin’s house, he lost all of the money in the dice game with Mr. Wildeve. But luckily the reddleman won the money back and gave all of them to Thomasin.

Clym decided to become a furze-cutter as long as he lived in Egdon Heath. Every day Clym always wanted to meet his mother, because he missed her, but he worried there would be a conflict. So he just waited for her coming.

One day Mrs. Yeobright decided to visited her son, Clym. She walked alone on the hot day in Egdon Heath to find her son’s cottage. After walked along day, she finally found her son’s cottage. Then she knocked the door, but nobody answered it. Inside the cottage there was Clym who felt asleep with his wife, Eustacia and unwanted visitor, Damon Wildeve.

When Clym woke up he heard a bad news about her mother, her mother was die near his cottage. Then he knew that his mother tried to meet him, but his wife did not opened the door. He was so angry to his wife and the sad woman, Eustacia decided to left his life in Egdon Heath to Paris. But she realized that she had not enough money to Paris, then Wildeve offered to join in her moved and he wanted to give money to Eustacia.

But in the stormy night Eustacia and Wildeve disappear in the pool on Mistover Knap. Clym who was looking for his wife, found her in that pool. But poor man, his wife died after people out their body from water.

After his wife death Clym became a preacher. He teach and preach everybody in entire village about God and His creation. Everybody listened him thorough, because they knew the story of his life.