Foreshadowing In Two Nights Before The Derby By Thomas Hardy

D.H. Lawrence, throughout the story teaches that the greed of wanting money leads to insanity and unhappiness by using foreshadowing. In the text it states,”Two nights before the Derby, she was at a big party in town, when one of her tushes of anxiety about her boy, her first-born, gripped her heart till she could hardly speak.” This line of foreshadowing is trying to say that something bad is going to happen to her son. She usually never feels worried about her son while intending these kinds of events. The only reason she is worried now is because of how he has acted recently while betting on the horses. She never knew why the change of personality happened, but she didn’t have to because there were changes in him that were obvious and no one has to know the whole story to know that something was nagging him to a to a state of unhealthiness of insanity.
Throughout the story the characters have come to the conclusion that money brings you happiness. In this part of the story, it foreshadows that instead of joy you receive unhappiness because no matter how much money you have, you will never have joy and because of this they think they need more money which ends in the same conclusion of no happiness. No matter how much money they receive, they will still strive for more because they don’t have joy and that happiness is what they have been looking for all along. To conclude, D.H. Lawrence, demonstrates that insanity and unhappiness is shown through foreshadowing because their greed for money and their misunderstanding of