I haven't read Lawrence since college, so I'm far from an authority. I'm thinking mostly of Sons and Lovers. It seems to me that those women made choices, but were also somehow in the throws of destiny? Your description of Catelin's pic made me think of one of the side characters in Sons and Lovers. Isn't there an unhappy wife/mother in that story who was impassioned and a bit imprisoned by her unhappy passions?
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