The Grass Is Singing By Doris Lessing

The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing
Plot Summary

This novel, written around entirely in the form of an extended flashback, details the mental, spiritual, financial and marital anarchys of the lives of Dick and Mary Turner, white farmers struggling to get under ones skin a living off a sun-baked farm in South Africa. Set in the days of apartheid (institutionalized racism), the novel explores themes relating to the sum of apartheid on the day-to-day lives of individuals both black and white, as comfortably as the slow simmering nature of revenge and an individuals get hold of for self-delusion to avoid facing uncomfortable truths.

The first chapter of the novel describes events and draw immediately following the discovery of the body of Mary Turner, stabbed to wipeout on her own veranda. These events include the immediate and painless fork over of her alleged murderer, a black servant named Moses, and the mental disintegration of Marys husband, Dick. The initial investigation is conducted by a patronizing patrol inspector called Denham, brought onto the Turner farm by a untrusting but strangely compassionate neighbor named Charlie Slatter.



Slatter and Denham both study the farms assistant manager, Tony Marston, with a degree of contempt, but are yet intrigued when he says he witnessed circumstances that he says might sick some light on the killing. Denham tells him that unless he has cold, hard facts, he (Denham) isnt interested in hearing anything. Marston feels snubbed, remaining silent as Marys body and Dick Turner are both taken away.

The life, experiences and feelings of Mary Turner are the focus of the rest of the novel, which is deal in the days, weeks, months and years before the murder. The second chapter focuses on Marys childishness with a father who was abusive and an alcoholic, a troubled mother, and twain older siblings who died during childhood. Mary leaves home as soon as she can, eventually obtaining a secretarial job in the urban center and...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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