Return of the Native Lesson Plan

How does Hardy create a parallel between the weather and the goings-on in today's reading?

The heat of July parallels the passion of the newlyweds, while autumn's arrival coincides with their cooling of passions. Their decline is not circumstantial, but rather tragically inevitable. They are both passionate and committed to their ideals - unfortunately, those ideals do not coincide.

However, the mistake has been made; they are married. Their desire for happiness in earlier books led each of them to blindly assume he or she could change the other, and now they must see their tragedy play out.

Discuss the significance of Clym's failing eyesight.

Clym’s...