cemetery He never went near his son s office again This shows grief However he cannot share it with his family Walter and Paul Paul the second son He is very close to his mother When Walter quarrels with Gertrude Paul openly takes his mother s side He hates the way Walter shouts and drinks The fights at home make Paul hate his father Paul sees his mother crying This fills him with anger against Walter Morel feels distance from Paul However he buys tulips for Paul when the boy is sick Lawrence says His father had bought him a pot of scarlet and gold tulips This shows he cares but his love is not perfect Paul feels pity not closeness Their bond is weak because Gertrude always stands between them Paul sees his father as cruel Walter Morel is very different from Paul s mother s world of thought and feeling Walter and Arthur Arthur the youngest son He is more like his father Walter loves him openly He jokes and shows pride Unlike with Paul or William the relationship is simple Arthur does not question his father s drinking or cruel behaviour This shows how class and character shape the bonds Two sons oppose but one accepts But even here love is superficial not deep Quarrels and Silence in the Home The house is full of quarrels Once Mr Morel throws a drawer at his wife He cuts off William s hair Misery fills the house So Lawrence says There was a feeling of misery over all the house Walter drinks comes home late and argues Lawrence again says about him He was a master of skittles and of dominoes The children see their mother suffer This creates distance Paul and William silently judge him The children grow in this hard silence They do not find warmth in their father Instead they take sides with their mother This weakens father son bonds even more Final Separation When Gertrude dies the family falls apart Morel and Paul move to another house But the distance remains Morel cannot console Paul Paul cannot depend on his father Both are lonely The story ends with Paul turning to life alone not to his father This shows the final truth father and sons never find real closeness Their relationship is marked by silence quarrels and missed chances The father son relationship in Sons and Lovers is painted in pain Walter Morel is rough careless and lost in drink His sons grow far from him William turns to London Paul attaches to his mother Arthur flees to the army No son finds a father Lawrence shows the tragedy of a home where love dies in the shadow of a miner s boots