This novel is Mary’s failure of individuation in the confrontation of her psychological and cultural parts, shaped by colonial experience. This article presents and interprets Doris Lessing’s first novel, The Grass is Singing (1950), as both a personal and psychological portrayal of its female protagonist, Mary Turner, from her childhood to death, and as a political exposure of the futility and fragility of the patriarchal and colonial society.
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