CLASS QUESTION FOR To Room Nineteen by Doris Lessing Published in 1963. What does the story explore?

SETTING Describe the environment of the house in Susans viewpoint before and after Mathews betraying. How is their bedroom described after the betraying? ACTION What intelligent choices do they make in the beginning? What did Susan do and how did she feel in the hotel room at first and after Mathew discovers it? CHARACTER What was the center of Susan and Mathews life? How was Susan professionally? How does Susan try to solve the betraying in her head at first? What was her hope after the betraying and before she went mad? Why does Susan invent she has a lover? Why does Mrs. Parkes annoy Susan? What role does Sophie Traub assume? SYMBOLS Analyze the meaning of the devil in the story. Make a description of his characteristics. Why does the narrator say the demons have disappeared in the end of the story?

UNIFRA LETRAS PORTUGUS INGLS LITERATURA INGLESA II

PROF. RODRIGO JAPPE

Teachers version

CLASS QUESTION FOR To Room Nineteen by Doris Lessing Published in 1963. What does the story explore?
The warring impulses of intellect and instinct, mind and heart, against the backdrop of early 1960s London, when women were caught in the social conservatism of the past and unable to see the promise of a future that would encourage choice, fulfillment, and personal freedom. Lessings tragic story illuminates the restrictions placed on women of this era and the devastating consequences of those restrictions.

SETTING Describe the environment of the house in Susans viewpoint before and after Mathews betraying. How is their bedroom described after the betraying? P.46 ACTION What intelligent choices do they make in the beginning? What did Susan do and how did she feel in the hotel room at first and after Mathew discovers it? P. 57, 58, 60 4. CHARACTER SUSAN What was the center of Susan and Mathews life? P.43 How was Susan professionally? P. 44 How does Susan try to solve the betraying in her head at first? P. 45 What was her hope after the betraying and before she went mad? P. 46 Why does Susan invent she has a lover? P. 61 Why does Mrs. Parkes annoy Susan? P. 49 What role does Sophie Traub assume? P. 56 SYMBOLS Analyze the meaning of the devil in the story. Make a description of his characteristics. P. 47, 48, 52, 55 Why does the narrator say the demons have disappeared in the end of the story?