How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
It was her youth which rebelled. These men seemed so old and cold. Everything seemed old and cold. (6.35)
Lawrence can't seem to decide if Clifford's friends are all immature or all old before their time. Maybe they're both at the same time—immature and jaded. It's an ugly combination.
Quote #5
She understood perfectly well why people had cocktail parties, and jazzed, and Charlestoned till they were ready to drop. You had to take it out some way or other, your youth, or it ate you up. But what a ghastly thing, this youth! (6.37)
Connie sympathizes with kids who just want to go out clubbing and drinking—you have to get your kicks out somehow—but she still thinks it's awful. If only there were a better way to enjoy being young…
Quote #6
If you were young, you just set your teeth, and bit on and held on, till the money began to flow from the invisible; it was a question of power. It was a question of will; a subtle, subtle, powerful emanation of will out of yourself brought back to you the mysterious nothingness of money a word on a bit of paper. It was a sort of magic, certainly it was triumph. (6.110)
Lawrence isn't totally down on youth. Young people have a blind sort of willpower that can make them successful. The problem seems to be that they focus on all the wrong things.