Timeline and Summary
MoreTimeline and Summary
- Eustacia is very miserable living on Egdon Heath with her grandfather.
- Her ex-boyfriend, Damon Wildeve, nearly elopes with another woman.
- But he has second thoughts and tries to win Eustacia back.
- Eustacia is kind of receptive, but she's warned away from him by Diggory Venn.
- Then Eustacia learns that Clym Yeobright is coming home from Paris.
- She quickly falls for Clym instead and arranges to meet him by disguising herself and performing in a play.
- Eustacia eventually meets Clym face-to-face and the two fall in love.
- She marries Clym and hopes he'll take her back to Paris.
- Eustacia doesn't get along with Clym's mother and the two have a huge argument.
- The newlyweds live in a small cottage and Eustacia is devastated when Clym goes practically blind.
- With her marriage falling apart, Eustacia starts growing closer to Damon Wildeve once again, who is now married to that other woman.
- Damon visits Eustacia one day, but Mrs. Yeobright shows up too.
- Eustacia doesn't let her in, thinking that Clym will get the door instead.
- Clym doesn't, though, and Mrs. Yeobright dies later that day. Eustacia feels awful about the situation.
- She doesn't tell Clym anything about it, but he eventually finds out what Eustacia did on his own.
- The two have a huge argument and Eustacia leaves him.
- Eustacia gets increasingly depressed and suicidal.
- She continues to speak to Damon and agrees to run off to Paris with him.
- The night the two try to leave, a huge storm arrives and both Damon and Eustacia drown.