# Paul Lensky — The Rainbow character guide

> Paul Lensky in The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Paul

**First appearance:** 0002-i-how-tom-brangwen-married-a-polish-lady

## Who they are

Lydia's son from her first marriage, dies young.

## In the story

### [IX: The Marsh and the Flood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rainbow_se/chapters/ix-the-marsh-and-the-flood)

Lydia's first husband, remembered in her reflections. He was a passionate but distant man, devoted to his ideas of nationalism and liberty, who died broken after his work failed.

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