An Analysis of ‘Tickets, Please’ by D. H. Lawrence

I found D. H. Lawrence’s Tickets, Please , first published in The Strand Magazine in 1919, to be a rather dark short story about working on the tram system in the English Midlands, set at the backdrop of World War I. At face value, the story dips and dives into issues surrounding gender roles, social dynamics, and shared humiliation and pain, but under the surface, Lawrence’s short story supposes…