The Return of the Native: Comedy? or Tragedy?

It's obvious: that no good will come of the quickly arranged marriage between Thomasin Yeobright and Damon (?), in Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native - he's already been a complete skunk to her and we know he'd throw  her over in a moment if he had a chance with Eustacia Vye - the only question is what she, an apparently intelligent young woman, can't see this - or why she wants him after his callous treatment of her. It's equally obvious: that Eustacia Vye should not end up with Damon but is meant for Thomasin's cousin Clym - she's knocked off her feet in fascination with him and has schemed to get him to notice her, which he definitely has - but how much is her passion real and how much is based on an illusion, the illusion that he an, or will, rescue her from her life of isolation in Wessex and will take her home w/ him when he returns to Paris; would she feel the same way about him if he were to decide to remain in Egdon? It's also obvious: that Diggary Venn (?), the reddleman, despite his frightening appearance, dyed with a red stain because of his trade in sheep-marking dye - is the right guy for Thomasin - sweet, intelligent, devoted - but will she ever see that? So much depends on whether Return is a comedy or a tragedy: it certainly has comic elements, such as the many long chapters in which we overhear conversations among the rustics, with their tales, legends, superstitions, and occasional shrewd observations - but then we remember novels such as Tess and think that maybe everything doesn't have to work out as it's supposed to, maybe fate and passion get in the way of the comic resolution, maybe characters to end up with the wrong mate, or with none, maybe passions drive these characters to desperate ends rather than into one another's arms: is it Midsummer Night's Dream? Or Troilus and Cressida?