This 2 page considers this argument by considering the action in Lessing s work. No additional sources cited. The paper discusses the protagonist s difficulty in separating her emotional needs from her culture s expectations of women s roles. No additional sources. A Reader as well as five other critical sources are used to help explain the protagonist s complex behavior.
Bibliography lists nine sources.
To say that women have had to fight for their existence within the literary world would be a gross understatement. Indeed, the road to self-expression through the written word has been paved with patriarchal intolerance and characteristic skepticism. That women have been forced to prove their worthiness within the stringent boundaries of a male-dominated existence speaks volumes about the inherent fortitude that comprises the female spirit. The writer discusses feminist critical theory as it relates to women writers, focusing upon a story by Doris Lessing. Bibliography lists 1 source.