The motif of eyes in the works of DH LawrenceD.H. Lawrence's 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 an eye motif. The eyes as a "window to the soul" are an ever-present reference in this work. First, Lawrence notes the "porcelain blue eyes" of Mrs. Coates, who is a "delightful, upright 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, "He looked up, paled to his lips, and saw his eyes. They were black and stared 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 strange, glittering black eyes that she had loved" (74). This deranged 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 searched him, scrutinized him, to see if he would recognize her, if she could find out. 'Don't you know me?' she asked, from the terror of her soul, being alone" (p.74). These lines incorporate the theme of the eyes as a 'window to the soul'. The young woman tries to reach the soul of the troubled man by searching his eyes. The eye motif in "The Shadow in the Rose Garden" is also found in "The Prussian Officer". In "Officer" many references are made to the eyes of the older Captain and the younger orderly. Lawrence describes the character's eyes when he writes, "The eyes of the two men encountered, those of the younger dark and sullen, stubbornly unalterable, those of the older grinning with restless contempt" (5). This comes after the orderly becomes more aware of his Captain's affections and starts showing off a little more to his girlfriend. Future lines of the story also carry the theme of the eyes as a "window to the soul": "The withered smile came into the eyes of the Captain .