It was in the early part of 19th century, one summer evening Michael Henchard, a young unemployed hay trusser and his wife, Susan and his daughter, Elizabeth Jane were walking to watch the village of Weydon- Priors, in the region of England known as Wessex. The man and woman were not were not concerned at all for each other. Eventually, the family stops in a furmity tent and he was drunk and complains about his unhappy marriage and poverty. He sold his wife and daughter to a sailor. The next day when he wake up he found his wife’s wedding ring and the money, he remember about the auction and then he decided to find them but he ended up blaming Susan and himself. He made an oath:he will not drink any strong liquor for twenty years. As he cant find them he heads for the town called Casterbridge. …show more content…
Susan asks the old furmity seller if she remembers the wife auction and the seller told her that her husband lived in Casterbridge. After they arrived at the town they foung Michael has worked his way up from a lowly hag harvester to a merchant now he is wealthy and even elected as the mayor of Casterbridge. When he found out that Susan and his daughter is in the town he suggests susan should call herself a widow and he’ll pretend to fall in love and asks to marry him as he didn’t want to admit anyone that he auctioned his wife. Both of them agreed to live together and Elizabeth as a step-daughter. After this Michael hires a young Scottish man, Donald Farfrae to help manage his affair. Farfrae helped him in his business came into shape and Elizabeth develops a crush on Farfrae. Michael told everything to Farfrae and even about his