To Room Nineteen | Color Imagery
In the following essay, Bell delineates the color imagery in “To Room Nineteen.”
Doris Lessing’s “To Room Nineteen” is a story of repression, alienation, and suicide. Lessing describes Susan Rawling’s search for inner tranquility, during which she vacillates between “the big white house” in Richmond—an image that consistently suggests the emptiness, stagnation, and constraint of her lifestyle—and the green garden with its “slowmoving brown river”—green and brown being associated here with the freedom of nature and procreation. Susan is “driven” to seek peace of mind away from the estate—first, in the “ordinary and anonymous” room of...
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