Lady Chatterley's Lover Lesson Plan

What is Tommy Dukes's response to Connie's question about why men and women don't like each other? What do you infer from what he says?

Tommy disagrees with Connie--he says men and women do like each other now, more than ever. The problem, though, is that if they like each other they cannot love each other. Tommy says that a woman wants both--to be liked and talked to by a man, and loved and desired, but it is impossible for these states to coexist. He explains that conversing with someone as an equal is a kind of intimacy that is incompatible with desiring that person. He doesn't have an explanation for why this is--merely that he is not attracted to women sexually. Readers...