While Eustacia and Damon are talking, Clym's mother (who never aproved Eustacia and never came to see her son for years) knocks on the door she has decided to pay a courtesy call in the hopes of healing the estrangement between herself and her son. Later on, Damon comes calling on the Yeobrights in the middle of one hot August day and, although Clym is at home, he is asleep. Damon said to Eustacia that he's still in love with her, and that he will rescue her from her marriage. One day Eustacia went alone to a popular dance at the village and she found casually her former lover Damon Wildeve (who's now married and has a daugther).

Eustacia, has then her dreams blasted and finds herself living in a hut on the heath, chained to take care of her disabled husband.Īt a dance, Eustacia encounters her former lover Damon who is still in love with her. Instead, Clym blinds himself with too much reading.

However: Clym studies night and day to prepare for his new career as a schoolmaster while Eustacia clings to the hope that he'll give up the idea and take her abroad to Paris someday. Clym and Eustacia marry and move to a small cottage five miles away, where they enjoy a brief period of happiness. With some difficulty, she arranges to meet Clym, and the two soon fall in love.

She dumps her former lover Damon Wildeve (who can't give her the future she dreams of) when Clym Yeobright, a successful diamond merchant, returns from Paris to his native Egdon Heath. Although he has no plans to return to Paris or the diamond trade and is, in fact, openly planning to become a schoolmaster for the rural poor, Eustacia sees him as a way to escape the hated heath and begin a grander existence in a glamorous new location. She is not in love with her suitors, and what she really wants is to abandon her isolated village, escape the hated heath and begin a grander, richer existence in Paris.Įustacia is obsessed with Paris and tries to find a man who can bring her to the great city. That, and her solitary and errant personality, feeds the rumor in the ignorant village of the 19 century that she's a witch who has many men under her spell.Īt first Eustacia doesn't care too much about the rumors (even if she might show some concers about it to her grandfather). Her beauty is astonishing, so she drives all the men near her completely mad. Eustacia Vye played by Catherine Zeta-Jones in 'The Return of the Native'Įustacia Vye is the main character of the period romantic drama The Return of the Native.Įustacia Vye is an exotically beautiful woman who lives in the small and isolated village of Egdon Heath, in the Wessex, with his ancient grandfather.

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