The Fox

Happen to read this by D. H. Lawrence published in 1923. The movie is also based on this book, Sandy Dennis as Jill Banford, Anne Heywood as Ellen March, and Keir Dullea as Henry Grenfield.

The story is about three protagonists in a triangle of love and hatred, Set in the Berkshire district of England during World War I.

Banford and March live and work together on their meagre farm, surviving hardship only by sheer determination and dedicated labour. Without the help of any male laborers, Nellie March and Jill Banford struggle to maintain a marginal livelihood at the Bailey Farm. A fox has raged through the poultry, and although the women—particularly the more masculine Nellie—have tried to shoot the intruder, he seems always to elude traps or gunshot. Banford is thin and frail, contrasting with her companion, and the one who had actually invested in the farm.

The farm is their world and a place of safety - that is, until a young soldier walks in and upsets the women's delicate status quo. Between Ellen and Jill came Paul... None could have predicted quite the effect his presence would have on their lives...

The Fox ... symbol of the male...Was it destiny? Jill was the first, to allow him to stay with them, considering him to be like her younger brother...And destiny took her life for her kindness...