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Gabriel Oak is a shepherd. While using savings of a frugal life and a loan, he has leased and stocked a sheep plantation. He falls deeply in love with a newcomer eight years his junior, Bathsheba Everdene, a proud beauty who happens to have with her aunt, Mrs. Hurst. She comes to like him sufficiently and even will save you his life once, however when he makes her an unadorned offer of marriage, she refuses; she values her independence too much and him too little. Gabriel's blunt protestations provide and then drive her to haughtiness. Following a few months, she steps to Weatherbury, a village some miles off. When next they meet, their circumstances have modified drastically. An inexperienced new sheepdog drives Gabriel's flock over a cliff, ruining him. After reselling off everything of value, he handles to settle all his debts but emerges penniless. He looks for career at a work good in the city of Casterbridge (a fictionalized version of Dorchester). When he confirms none, he minds to another reasonable in Shottsford, a town about 10 miles from Weatherbury. Along the way, he happens upon a dangerous flame on a plantation and leads the bystanders in putting it out. When the veiled owner comes to say thanks to him, he asks if she requires a shepherd. She uncovers her face and shows herself to be none other than Bathsheba. She's just lately inherited the real estate of her uncle and is currently a wealthy woman. Though somewhat unpleasant, she hires him. Meanwhile, Bathsheba has a new admirer: the unhappy and repressed William Boldwood. Boldwood is a booming farmer of about 40 whose ardor Bathsheba unwittingly awakens when - her curiosity piqued because he has never bestowed on her the customary admiring glance - she playfully transmits him a valentine closed with red polish on which she's embossed the words "marry me personally". Boldwood, not recognizing the valentine was a jest, becomes obsessed with Bathsheba and soon proposes marriage. Although she will not love him, she toys and games with the idea of recognizing his offer; he is, after all, the most entitled bachelor in the district. However, she postpones supplying him a particular answer. When Gabriel rebukes her for her thoughtlessness, she fires him. When her sheep commence dying from bloat, she discovers to her chagrin that Gabriel is the one man who knows how to remedy them. Her pleasure delays the inevitable, but finally she is required to beg him for help. Afterward, she offers him his job back, and their companionship is restored.
