Fanny and Annie

The “Fanny and Annie” short story is part of D.H. Lawrence’s “England, my England” short story collection. As in most of his short-stories, in “Fanny and Annie” too, D.H. Lawrence changes his manner of writing from one scene to the next, being sometimes plain and direct, sometimes lush and florid, while sometimes he intrudes in his narrative to deliver lectures in a style which is flagrantly rethorical and often incantatory. It is this aspect of Lawrence, the seer, the prophet that could most closely describe the type of narrator which he chooses for his writings. The narrative voice is omnipresent, closely focused on the main character, Fanny, as she progressively gets to the final decision of marrying Harry in spite of all the town gossip...........