【正确答案】正确答案：In The Mayor of Casterbridge, the hero Michael Henchard, in drunkenness, sells his wife to a pass-by sailor. With a guilty feeling, he swears never to drink again for the next twenty years. He works hard and becomes the mayor of Casterbridge. But he has to pay for his previous crime. He successively loses his wife, his reputation, his business and his step-daughter, and finally dies in poverty and loneliness.