© 2012 ACADEMY PUBLISHER An Analysis of Three Images in Doris Lessing’s To Room Nineteen

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 centur