In Margaret Drabble's fourth novel, Jerusalem the Golden, the heroine, Clara Maugham feels unhappy at her home in Northam. Her mother is mean, opportunistic, friendless and hostile towards Clara. Her father has passed away and she is not on good terms with her mother and brothers. She is starved for love. She would like to escape from her home, Northam, to find her own happiness. Everybody wants to be happy. In this respect, she is not exceptional. Drabble gives her an opportunity to escape from her home by setting up a situation whereby she is smart enough to get a scholarship and can go to the University of London thanks to it. Clara detests Northam's barrenness and yearns for a big city like London. As she is starved for family love, she seeks to find her ideal family there. She thinks that she has found it among the Denhams. However, they are not as ideal as she thinks. Superficially, they are sophisticated but in reality they are incapable of adapting themselves to society. We can notice their inner paralyses. Furthermore, she desires to enter a genteel society, which she imagines would enable her to become happy. She utilizes her feminine charms to enter the upper-class. She seeks to realize her happiness and dreams regardless of the propriety of her method. Even if she points to her unfortunate loveless family as her reason to look for a blue-bird of happiness, we do not feel sympathy for her owing to her egoistic and aggressive attitude. We worry about her future because she loses her humanity as she seeks for what she thinks is happiness.