Clym has a quarrel with Eustacia when he comes to know about this affair. On her part, Eustacia feels disgusted and bored after not being able to get rid of Egdon Heath, and renews her affair with Wildeve. His relations with his mother become strained because of his marriage with Eustacia. He has to give up studies and become a furze-cutter. Clym studies too much to equip himself as a teacher, and loses his eyesight partially.
She has already had an affair with Damon Wildeve who, in his turn, has also had an affair with Clym's cousin Thomasin Yeobright whom he marries to spite Eustacia.Įustacia marries Clym Yeobright in the hope of persuading him in future to leave Egdon Heath and go back to Paris to settle there. Here he falls in love with the willful and passionate woman, Eustacia Vye, who is bored with her life in Egdon Heath, and seeks an escape from it.
Fed up with the superficially attractive life of Paris, and disgusted with his occupation, he settles down in his hometown with plans to become a schoolteacher and set up a school for children. Clym Yeobright, the native of Egdon Heath, returns from Paris, where he has been engaged in business as a jeweler and diamond-merchant. The story of the novel is set against the somber rural background of Egdon Heath, and embodies the tragedy engulfing the life of several of its characters.
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