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- CommentAuthoradmin
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- CommentAuthorKirsten
- CommentTimeNov 18th 2008
This is a theme Lessing brings up again and again: she finds herself limited by a single medium. What role, then, does the novel play here? Is it supposed to reveal these complexities? In doing so, does it detract from a single image or a single moment? The way Tommy envies the milkman's son for having the limits established by his family's means, Lessing envies film for showing a person from a single camera angle, in a single light, rather than trying to show one from the thousands of angles available to an author. The complexities that are possible for writers seems to overwhelm Anna, and she wrestles to find another medium to describe Maryrose.
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