1. Explication of Doris Lessing's "A WOMAN ON THE ROOF"
To them she was inviting trouble, sunbathing like that, in a public place, in the nude. ... Surprisingly though we find one of the men, Harry saying "small things amuse small minds" when Stanley let out a wolf whistle!! ... He lied to them apparently because "he wanted to keep what he had seen to himself: he had actually caught her in the act of rolling down the little red pants over her hips, till they were no more than a small triangle. ... Paragraph 3 (lines 10 - 15) Here a conversation takes place between the men, in which they are angry and presumptuous. ...
- Word Count: 4111
- Approx Pages: 16
- Grade Level: High School