To Room Nineteen | A Jungian Interpretation to Lessing's Short Story
In the following essay, Watson applies a Jungian interpretation to Lessing’s “To Room Nineteen.”
The Devil that appears to Susan Rawlings in Lessing’s “To Room Nineteen” does not entice her to “partake of forbidden fruit” but to “open her eyes.” Total insight into Susan’s dilemma for both Susan and the reader rises or falls upon a correct view of the “son of the morning.” Failure to apply a Jungian interpretation to the demon has caused critics to prematurely evaluate “To Room Nineteen” as a “horrifying study of insanity creeping on,” or as “a meaningful story about a personal failure in marriage that represents a failure of the relationship between man...
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