1. Michael
Henchard sells his wife Susan and one-year-old child Elizabeth-Jane to a sailor
called Newson in a fair in utter tipsiness.
2. Realising
his grave error the following morning, he swears that he won’t drink for next
21 years.
3. In a jump
of a chapter, 20 years elapse, and Susan and Elizabeth-Jane seem to be in
search of Henchard.
4. Henchard
meanwhile has become a rich corn-merchant and the mayor of a rustic town called
Casterbridge.
5. Jane being
ignorant of the fact that Henchard was her biological father, the secret which
Susan didn’t reveal, Henchard and Susan reunite by a marriage.
