Part one of term paper
Doris Lessing¹s "" is a story about reality and fantasy. Throughout the story Lessing uses certain colors such as white, scarlet, and black to illustrate actual and assumed characteristics. Color is very influential to how people perceive things because of the meanings associated with it. The significance of these colors is important to an ...

Part two of term paper
... she seems in his mind. The first day he saw her, "she was white" (703) and "looked like a poster, or a magazine cover" (704). He later dreams "she had him into her flat: it was big and had fitted white carpets and a bed with a padded white leather headboard" (705). Even though he does not know her, Tom sees the woman as free from any blemish. Tom thought he knew what the woman on the roof was like. In his dreams "she was kind and friendly" (705). White symbolizes Tom¹s fantasy of the woman on ...