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 .
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. ."(545 Lessing). Now Tom has is definitely out of his mind and acting stupidly by going to the same woman that rejected them in addition, the woman rejected him, "if you get a kick out of seeing women in bikinis, why don't you take an sixpenny bus ride to the Lido? You'd see dozens of them, without all this mountaineering." On the Other hand, Stanley as a young man, was mad at the woman for striping naked and almost got out of control. Stanley is not preserving this for the first time because he was married “Stanley was married” (542 Lessing). Stanley think that what the woman was doing was offencive, “If my wife lay about like that for everyone to see, i’d soon stop her” (539 Lessing), he knew it was wrong and if it was his wife, he will have stopped her. When the woman seems to not care about the men looking at her, Stanley was starting to get out of control and calling the woman “Bitch”(542 Lessing). Stanley seems to not like what the woman was doing and even decided to call the police on the woman “I’ve got a good mind to report her to the police” (540 Lessing), He seems to be over with what the woman was doing even though is not his own business (made by hammad Dikko) Harry, as an elderman, maintained his respect by not mining the woman’s business and didn't care about what she does also, he even make fun of Tom and Stanley of looking at the woman.
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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When he told her, she wasn’t content that he turned it down because they could’ve had money. So the following day she went out to the forest to go look for the devil. He waited to full day to go look for her because she took the pots and pans with her when she went to go meet up with the devil. He didn’t want to find her because he missed her. He wanted to find her because she had the pots that he could sell and make money off of. When he was walking in the forest on the look for her, he saw that her check apron was hanging on the branch of the tree. “Let us get hold of the property and we will endeavor to do without the woman”( Irving 158). When he took the apron off of the branch, he saw that nothing was in it but his wife’s heart and liver tied up in it. The point of this section is that Tom’s wife meant nothing to him because instead of being worried about her,
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