The story Jude the Obscure, written by Thomas Hardy, Jude Fawley dreams of studying at the university in Christminster, but his background as an orphan raised by his working-class aunt leads him instead into a career as a stonemason. I really don’t remember much about the story because when I was a junior in Roma High School I had to relate the story with my own life. It is a very persuasive and exciting novel which places lots of emphasis on getting certain points and abstract ideas to the reader’s mind. Although it is a very difficult book to understand it gives the reader a vivid description about the events in the novel. The novel takes place through a serious of events. It starts off when Jude as a young child who dreams of attending Christminister to fulfill his dreams. Everyone as a child had dreams of becoming someone in life. My dream as I was a child was attending the University of Texas at Austin and becoming a Pediatrician.  Jude is confronted with many obstacles that forbid him into fulfilling his dream. Jude, however, is not meant to study at a University.  He becomes a stonecutter and marries Arabella, a woman he does not really love.  “Jude follows certain dreams, but once circumstances turn for the worse, he abandons his aspirations.  His system of beliefs works in a similar manner.  Once his emotions contradict his beliefs, he drops his ideologies to suit his situation.  It is this lack of bearing that leaves him devastated so many times in his life.” ( Pinkmonkey) Jude is confronted with many problems ;he then  decides to go back to Christminister to establish his dream. In his mission on conquering his goal he falls in love with his cousin Sue. Jude arrange for Sue to work with Phillotson in order to keep her in Christminster. Later in the story Sue and Phillotson are engaged to be married but later Sue leaves Phillotson in order to live with Jude. The story is really contradicting because at the end Sue goes back with Phillostson and Jude with Arabella. The main topic about this novel is about setting your own goal in marriage. The author clearly defines Jude's many goals, one which is the fulfilling his goal to attend Christminister and the winning the love of Sue. Certain aspects do not allow Jude into reaching for its goal due to the fact that life is full of problems in which we need to perceive. I really didn’t like the book because if you love someone you will do anything that is possible just to be with that special person. “The author shows marriage between Sue and Phillotson as well as Jude and Arabella as a trap of unhappiness. He then contrasts that unhappiness with the life of "true" happiness that Jude and Sue had together, out of wedlock.” ( Pinkmonkey) In my opinion, what happen between Sue and Jude is absolutely obscure because their love was never settled.