The motif of eyes in the works of DH LawrenceD.H. Lawrence's short stories The Shadow in the Rose Garden, The Prussian Officer and The White Stocking have an eye motif. This motif, along with a variety of other motifs, is used throughout the author's works and adds depth to the stories. “The Shadow in the Rose Garden” has a motif of eyes. The eyes as “window to the soul” are an omnipresent reference in this work. First, Lawrence notes the "porcelain blue eyes" of Mrs. Coates, who is a "lovely, mannered old lady." (70) Later, when the young woman sits on the garden bench in front of the white roses and sees the man in front of her, she notices his eyes. Lawrence writes: “She looked up, turned pale to the lips, and saw his eyes. They were black and looked without seeing. They were not the eyes of a man” (73). The young woman was very disturbed by the man whose eyes “stared without seeing”. After she began to speak, the young woman noticed that his eyes “were the black eyes, bright and strange, that she had loved” (74). This disturbed man she was talking to reminded her of a man she once loved, who is not her husband because Lawrence refers to “his brown eyes” (75). Therefore, Lawrence writes: “Her eyes sought him, and sought him, to see if he would recognize her, if she could find him out. “You don’t know me? "she asked, from the terror of her soul, alone" (p.74). These lines incorporate the theme of the eyes as “window to the soul”. The young woman tries to reach the soul of the disturbed man by searching his eyes. The eye motif in “The Shadow in the Rose Garden” is also found in “The Prussian Officer”. Many references are made to the eyes of the older captain and the young orderly in "Officer". Lawrence describes the character's eyes when he writes: "The eyes of the two men he met, those of the younger one sullen and dark, stubbornly unchanging, those of the older one sneering with worried contempt" (5). This comes after the nurse becomes more aware of his captain's affection and begins to show off a little more with his girlfriend. Future lines of the story also carry the theme of eyes as a "window to the soul": "The withering smile appeared in the captain's eyes. .