Analyse af Doris Lessings 'Romance 1988'

1. Write a summary in no more than 150 words of the conversation between Sybil and Joan.

2. Characterize the two sisters.

3. Comment on their view upon marriage.

4. In a short essay (150 to 200 words) discuss what you think people could talk about in public and what you think belongs to privacy.

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Romance 1988, a short story by Doris Lessing: London Observed, Stories and Sketches (Flamingo 1992)

1.

The conversation between Sybil and Joan, are about Sybil’s life, and the man in it. They are talking about Oliver, and how she feels about him. Sybil tells her sister that Oliver has slept whit another woman. She tells that she has forgiven him, because he sad that he was felling guilty about it.

Sybil says that she wants to marry Oliver, and is ready to have kids. After some chatting between the to sisters Sybil announced that that have decedent to get an ADIS test. Because both of them has been whit many other people. They are tomfoolery about sex, and relationship.

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2.

Sybil is not an ordinary girl/woman, she is good looking, has short yellow hair that’s short. She is a girl/woman that has a will and now what she wants.