Jill Banford is one of the main characters of the short story “The Fox” by D.H. Lawrence. She is a thirty years old woman and she is thin and delicate. She lives in a farm with March in Berkshire,England. Her grandfather was the owner, but when he died he left the two girls alone. Banford in the story is decribed as the opposite of March.
Banford is more feminine than March. March , the protagonist of the short story , plays in the farm hard jobs and typically male. Banford instead is considered the more famale of the two girls because she did “woman works” in the farm. Banford conviced March to hosted Henry into the farm, and she prevented the marriage between Henry and March. She will die at the end of the story, crushed by a pine that Henry was cutting.
The author of the short story , D.H. Lawrence, had imagined before writing the story that the characters of the two protagonists had to be opposed . So how they should be fitting the characteristics of the fox and Henry.