To Room Nineteen | Style
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Fiona Barnes, in her article for Dictionary of Literary Biography, argues that Lessing’s “stories benefit from the creative tension caused by the unsettling contrast between the ethical, at times political, commitment of her vision and the cool, frequently humorous, detachment of her ironic tone.” Lessing displays this ironic tone masterfully in “To Room Nineteen.” From the opening line, the narrator sets up the tension between Lessing’s political focus in the story and the detached narrative tone: “This is a story, I suppose, about a failure...
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