Lady Chatterley, the former Constance Reid, Is a young married woman, whose upper-class baronet husband, Sir Clifford Chatterley, described as a handsome, well-built man, is paralysed from the waist down because of a Great War injury. This leads Constance to have an affair with the gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. The class difference between the couple highlights The central theme and reenforced Constance’s realisation that she cannot live with the mind alone. That realisation stems from a heightened sexual experience that Constance has felt only with Mellors, suggesting that love requires the elements of both body and mind.