Jude the Obscure Lesson Plan

How does Hardy use the death of their children to paint a contrast between Sue and Jude?

Hardy emphasizes the contrast between Jude and Sue’s reactions to their children’s deaths by relating their long arguments in the days after the event. Although he was the more demonstrative partner in their relationship, Jude is much calmer than Sue in the face of crisis - while she sleeps or has hysterics, he makes practical arrangements to bury the children, and he is the first to accept that a doctor will be no help in reviving them.

In contrast, Sue is so distraught that she has a miscarriage. Hardy heavily insinuates that Sue’s sudden turn to religious conservatism is...