An Analysis of Three Images in Doris Lessing’s To Room Nineteen 多丽丝·莱辛到十九号房的三幅图像分析.pdfVIP

ISSN 1799-2591 Theory and Practice in Language Studies, Vol. 2, No. 8, pp. 1651-1655, August 2012 © 2012 ACADEMY PUBLISHER Manufactured in Finland. doi:10.4304/tpls.2.8.1651-1655 An Analysis of Three Images in Doris Lessing’s To Room Nineteen Kun Zhao Shandong University of Finance and Economics, China Email: sjqj@163.com Abstract—Doris lessing is the famous contemporary British writer and novelist. Her well-known short story To Room Nineteen tells Susan, an intelligent woman, is lost in the chaotic housework and tries to search for an authentic self which leads to her madness and ultimate suicide. This paper focuses on the three images described in Lessing’s To Room Nineteen which foreshadow Susan’s suicide. Index Terms—feminine image, water image, room image I. INTRODUCTION OF DORIS LESSING Doris Lessing is a prolific and talented English writer after the World War II . As a female writer, Lessing has produced numerous works during her writing career, which cover a wide range of topics and demonstrate various styles . Readers appreciate her works so much that they praise her as one of the most wide-ranging and comprehensive of contemporary novelists, one of the most gifted of the younger group of English novelists and one of the 20th century writers by whom literary critics of the future will know us. During the past fifty years, she has been awarded a lot of influential prizes such as Somerset Maugham Award (1954), French Prix Medicis Prize (1976), W. H. Smith Literary Award (1986), Premio Internazionale Mondello (1987), Companion of Honor from