Eustacia Vye is the main character of the period romantic drama The Return of the Native.

Born in the busy port town of Budmouth who lives in the small and isolated village of Egdon Heath, in
the Wessex, with his ancient grandfather.

Eustacia , fictional character, is an exotically beautiful woman, who marries Clym Yeobright in this novel.
Her beauty is astonishing, so she drives all the men near her completely mad.

That, and her solitary and errant personality, feeds the rumor in the ignorant village of the 19 century
that she’s a witch who has many men under her spell.

Eustacia despises the heath, and searches for a way to escape. However, even as she hates the heath,
Eustacia seems in her deep, brooding passion, to be a part of its wild nature.

In fact, Eustacia carefully maintained her distance from the natives as she harboured hopes of marrying
someone who would take her away from the heath. As Hardy described her: "To be loved to madness —
such was her great desire”.

Eustacia is obsessed with Paris and tries to find a man who can bring her to the great city.

She has an amorous relationship with Damon Wildeve, but soon fall in love with Clym .Clym and Eustacia
marry and move to a small cottage five miles away, where they enjoy a brief period of happiness.
However: Clym studies night and day to prepare for his new career as a schoolmaster while Eustacia
clings to the hope that he’ll give up the idea and take her abroad to Paris someday.

Instead, Clym blinds himself with too much reading. Eustacia, has then her dreams blasted and finds
herself living in a hut on the heath, chained to take care of her disabled husband.One day Eustacia went
alone to a popular dance at the village and she found casually her former lover Damon WWildev. Damon
said to Eustacia that he’s still in love with her, and that he will rescue her from her marriage.

When Clym knew about the death of her mother and what her last words where (that she saw Eustacia
at the window and that she didn’t let her enter into the house) he rushes home to accuse his wife of
murder and adultery.

Eustacia Vye was a goodwill girl with a free-spirit that doesn’t fit into the standars of the small village.
She has the ambition of living in Paris, although that doesn’t make her break her morals.

She dumped the unfitted Damon Wildeve since she was not in love with him and couldn’t gave her the
life she wanted, and she marry Clym with whom she falls in love. Even when Clym goes blind, she resigns
to her desires to travel to Paris(a desire that is always in her mind) and takes care of her beloved
husband.