So when I was getting into the rest of it I found myself thinking what had happened to them and didn’t really take notice of the main characters as they are introduced.
The trouble is that neither of them play a very big part for most of the rest of the novel. When he does reach his destination, the first major dialogue is between himself and a young girl named Marty South. It is buried away in a woodland and out of the way for most people so that it remains unfound to all except to those who seek it out, as this traveller does. The traveller in question is looking for a tiny hamlet called Little Hintock which is the setting for this story. The book begins with a lone traveller on the road.
The reason for this is that in the opening scene (which is similar to The Return of the Native) just seems to happen and then bears little relevance to the rest of the start of the book. I must confess that I got about 50 pages in, but hadn’t really absorbed much of it given that I found it quite dull and made myself go back and start again. To the best of my knowledge this is considered one of Hardy’s better written books, though having not discovered Hardy until my 20s, it doesn’t appear to be one of the most well known.
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