Flight story doris lessing pdf5/26/2023 ![]() This is very much the case when it comes to the grandfather. ![]() With old age comes stubbornness and a lack of will to change one’s habits. It may also be a case that the grandfather does not like change. The reader is given an insight into how he thinks and it is contrary to how others around him think. It may also be important that the grandfather is the one constant voice in the story. Something that is clearer to the reader when the grandfather tells Alice that he will tell her mother that she is waiting for Steven. He likes company yet since Alice’s three sisters have gotten married the grandfather may actually feel lonely and bitter. ![]() The reader also feels as though the grandfather has lived his life yet he is not happy with the circumstances he finds himself in. If anything the grandfather feels as though he may be losing Alice to Steven which may cause him to feel jealous of Alice and Steven’s relationship. He does not consider it to be appropriate for a young girl of her age. Alice’s grandfather is angry about her relationship with Steven. Taken from her African Stories collection the story is narrated in the third person by an unnamed narrator and after reading the story the reader realises that Lessing may be exploring the theme of anger. ![]() In Flight by Doris Lessing we have the theme of anger, acceptance, jealousy, conflict, change, independence, letting go and freedom.
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