is a kind and honest man He respects Tess and falls in love with her However Tess thinks she is not worthy of him because of her past She feels guilty She rejects Angel s marriage proposal saying I am not good enough not worthy enough Tess also deeply loves Angel She does not want to lose him So she decides to write a letter telling him everything about her past But Angel never reads it before marriage Angel Leaves Tess When Tess tells Angel about her tragic past after marriage Angel abandons her He thinks Tess is not a pure woman anymore He says You were one person now you are another He cannot forgive Tess He says O Tess forgiveness does not apply to the case He leaves for Brazil Tess feels broken and helpless again Alec Returns Tess becomes very poor Her family becomes homeless Then Alec returns in Tess s life to make her suffer more He pretends to be a religious man He takes advantage of Tess s poverty and makes her his mistress This ends Tess s final chance of happiness Finally Tess is hanged for the murder of Alec Hence Tess keeps falling from one painful situation to another She escapes one trouble but enters a worse one Her life clearly shows the meaning of from the frying pan into the fire nbsp