The portrayal of a complete lack of understanding and absence of compassion in Mary and Dick’s marriage is brilliant. Mary’s hatred of the natives is matched by her hatred of her husband who is portrayed as a weak and incompetent man with the mannerisms of an inept school boy. The author brings this aspect out in Mary’s hatred of the natives, as she refuses to even acknowledge their humanity or to think of them as members of the same human race with her. Unfortunately, the attitudes of whites toward indigenous people portrayed in the book were once a reality in many parts of colonial Africa for a very long time. The portrayal of Mary and her husband Dick, white farmers in Southern Rhodesia, capture the era of white supremacy over indigenous Africans. Family drama in colonial Southern Rhodesia.ĭoris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing tells an ageless story of characters moving through life in what I would call absolute unconsciousness.
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