Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy; Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell; A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams. At first glance, these classics of literary legend seem to have nothing in common. However, looking more closely, one concept unites these three works of art. At the center of every story there is a woman, a woman portrayed authentically. A woman with strengths, weaknesses, desires, memories, hopes and dreams. Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Mitchell's Scarlett O'Hara and Williams' Blanche DuBois are beautiful, intelligent and sophisticated women: strong but fragile, brazen but subtle, carnal but pure. Surviving literature that depicts women so realistically and movingly is still very rare today, and every piece of that unique genre is to be appreciated. But unlike those singular works, there lived a man who built a career writing novels that explored the complex psyches of women. Somehow, in each novel, this author's mind and heart act like a telescope staring into an unforgettable portrait of a woman. Through the central female characters of his novels Lady Chatterley's Lover and Sons and Lovers, DH Lawrence illuminates dimensions of a woman's soul not often explored in literature. In Lady Chatterley's Lover, the title character, Lady Constance Chatterley, known as Connie, is the driving force of the novel's plot. She is a woman seeking sexual fulfillment, and in doing so she becomes emblematic of one of the main themes of the novel: the attainment of wholeness (Squires in Lawrence, Lady 1994 xxi). Lawrence directs Connie's actions towards this goal, thus initiating her relationship with the lower-class gardener, Oliver Mellors, the main plot of the entire novel. In the first chapter of the novel, Lawrence describes sex... in the center of the paper... the frank but lyrical writing style reveals the authentic faces of love and sexuality. As Lawrence himself once said, “My sex is me as my mind is me, and no one will make me ashamed of it” (Tynan). Works Cited Bloom, Harold ed. Bloom's major novelists: D.H. Lawrence. Broomall: Chelsea House Publishers, 2002. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover. New York: The Modern Library, 1957. Lawrence, D.H. Lady Chatterley's Lover. New York: Penguin Books, 1994. Lawrence, D. H. Sons and Lovers: Text, Context, and Criticism. New York: Penguin Books, 1977. Lawrence, D. H. Sons and Lovers. New York: Penguin Books, 1994. Murfin, Ross C. Sons and Lovers: A Student's Companion to the Novel. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1987.Tynan, Kenneth. “Chatterley: When Sex Was Put on Trial.” November 6, 1960. December 5. 2009. .