Moments after the triumphant conclusion of Women in Love and I feel fulfilled? It is precisely this feeling of uncertainty- this internal opposition and frustrated desire to know more- that enables me to excitingly praise DHL’s conclusion of Women in Love. In this almost perfect instant, DHL both preserves and immortalizes the impossibility of being fulfilled, or at least a fulfillment that isn’t fleeting, changing, or moving in some way on its way to evolving into the next moment of opposition. At once, the novel’s conclusion in a moment of Birkin and Ursula’s disagreement preserves Birkin’s disheartening quest for the kind of completion almost provided by Gerald; the type of fulfillment that would result and in an impeccable yet hellish hybrid or additional kind of love. Birkin’s moment of disbelief captures the characters’abilities to dwell within the moments of oppositions. Throughout the novel I’ve observed these moments commonly exemplified by the dash in examples like “pale-shadowy” (pg 473) but also in the narrative’s reliance on beginning sentences with “but”: “It was a saying of some great French religious teacher.-But surely this is false” (pg 478). It has been intriguing to see how each of DHL’s characters spends their lives inside the moment of two extremes while always questioning: to what end? To Gerald’s end perhaps? The sacrificial character to perpetuate the cycle of opposition and uncertainty for Birkin? Without Gerald’s death, maybe Birkin would not have further critiqued Ursula’s existence. Or perhaps he would have found something else wrong in order to immortalize the book’s form and flow: just keep moving…or else. Conversely, perhaps I have indeed overlooked the ending after all. It ends on a complete thought which is very unlike any chapter we’ve been confronted with thus far.