where did mary work in the grass is singing

Rooms represent female entrapment and limitation rather than psychic growth, freedom. Lessing uses symbolic images of rooms to illustrate the limitations that individuals, particularly women, experience because of the patriarchal collective. The cottage where the unhappy married couple, Dick and Mary, lives can be viewed as a symbolic representative of colonialism, which allows for a bodily interpretation: the abandoned house in the middle of the African desert is the corpse of the coloniser defeated by nature and the enormous infinity of the surrounding African landscape. Symbolism is one of the major literary devices by which Doris Lessing draws a picture of Rhodesian society how badly white people treated black people during that period and tells the story of a white woman and her unhappy marriage to Dick, a poor white farmer her obsessive in love with her black houseboy and her madness and murder. The Grass is Singing is a powerful psychological study of an unhappy woman and her marriage.

Where did mary work in the grass is singing