Use of Setting and Color in Doris Lessing’s short story T
Use of Setting and Color in Doris Lessing’s short story To Room Nineteen Susan Rawling, main character in Doris Lessing’s short story “To Room Nineteen”, fights against her inner emptiness and the choices she ought to make. This painful battle ends up determining an alienated attitude towards her life. In order to express this psychological process, Lessing discreetly describes how the character differently views her surroundings along the story, making use of elements in Susan´s surroundings, including the starkness of her white house to represent her troublesome emotional status, and later using color and interior descriptions to appear to draw Susan away from her internal alienation through what seems to be her only choice: suicide. At the onset of the story, Susan Rawling lives in a large, white, seemingly empty house. Scarcely can the reader find any detailed description of both the house and the furniture this house is bound to have in it. Her surroundings symbolize her internal emptiness, her sense of separation from other people, and even her separation from herself: “ In that case why did Susan feel as if life had become a desert , and tha
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Approximate Word count = 799
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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