as its symbol for women. Coventry Patmore's, in his poem “The Angel in the House”,

Rich is trying to contain the real life in a fantasy life by starting the poem with the tigers and then ending it with same symbol. Rich portrays what can happen to an individual who accepts the fate prescribed by custom. The overall message is that men suppress women.

A fictional story of a women name Judith who is living in a male dominated society is brought forth in “Our Friend Judith”. Judith to her friends was an English spinster. This is due to the fact that she is "fortyish, unmarried, and living alone"(Our Friend Judith). But this label is a complete misinterpretation of the story’s lead character. Judith is shown as a personality, whether deliberate or not, who gives her friends plenty to gossip about. A women who lets young American strangers occupy and destroy her flat; who retains and displays her old lovers literary works; a character who becomes a ”mistress” and has an affair with a married man; and gallivants around the Italian Riviera. Gayle Greene defines Lessing’s story by stating, “Dorris Lessing's fiction is visionary and reversionary in getting us to see that our reality is not the whole of reality and to imagine an elsewhere (Gayle Greene page #20). The whole idea of the story revolves around 3 characters. The 3 main characters comprise of Judith, Betty and a third character that is telling the story. The whole plot is one long gossip session between Betty and the narrator about what and why Judith is doing. Without this rich characterization of Judith, the story would basically be lacking a plot.

protect the cat from harm in the story and later realizes how dependent the cat has become on her. This made her realize more about her life. This story shows how a woman becomes completely dependant on a male figure. Being a self made woman Judith finds this fact very hard to believe.

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