Until Death Do us Part

Until Death Do Us Part Everybody has a time in their life when they just need to be alone. Whether it’s to think about life, or free themselves from their daily stress, isolation from the world may well be a necessary thing. In To Room Nineteen by Doris Lessing, the character Susan craves freedom from the bondage of her responsibilities. Her role as a mother and wife is so demanding that it is literally …showed first 75 words of 820 total…

…showed last 75 words of 820 total…of her freedom came from exactly opposite of what her dreams may have been. Contrastingly, it wasn’t the nice house, the family, or handsome husband, but the broken down shabby hotel room used for the sexual purposes of others. Without her role and identity as just a wife and mother, she left the world, committing suicide in the one place that she treasured as her safe haven. In death she was finally set free.