Character Analysis: A Woman On A Roof

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The story “A Woman on a Roof” by Doris Lessing, reveals how the protagonist Tom harry and Stanley view women sexually considering their stage of life as a man.
In “A Woman on a Roof”, Tom is revealed a teenager, he have not seen women half naked like that, had his first experience for glimpse of women half naked. He act like an amature and even go over the boundaries. “She thinks no one can see her” (543 Lessing) Tom knew that that was not normal and he wasn't familiar with watching women like that. Tom lies to his fellow friends just to see the woman alone, “Tom’s report was that she hadn't moved but it was a lie” (539 Lessing). He starts to tell his friends lies and pretend so that he could perceive his unfamiliar feelings that the other men wanted. It went to the extent that Tom dreams about himself and the lady together, he feels that he and the woman were perfect,”He felt she was more his, that the other men couldn't see her” (539 Lessing). Here, Tom feels safe without the other men he even talks to the woman when the other men were out, "But I like you, I've been watching you and . …show more content…

Harry didn’t wanted to worry about the woman because of how elderly he was and because of their difference in age “Harry had grownup children, a boy the same age as Tom, and the youth trusted and looked up to him.” (543 Lessing). Harry tells the other men “If she was married, her husband wouldn’t like that” (539 Lessing), he didn’t believe and even seems to not care about the woman, he also ask them what harm she was doing for them "What's eating you? What harm's she doing?" . Harry makes fun at the men “Harry was doing it in parody of the younger men, making fun of them” (539 Lessing).it went to the extent that he refers to them as small minds”Small things that amuse small minds” (539

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