Little by little a forbidden relationship growns between them. There’s a strange tension, she hates the man but at the same time he obsesses her. Mary is frightened when she recognizes the man, she once hit. Then one day Dick sends her a new house-boy, Moses. Dick refuses saying they are too poor to give a child a good future. Then she suggests to have a baby, a girl of her own. She falls numbed and tired, without any interest. Then she realizes that the situation won’t ever change, she slowly starts thinking that there will be no future. The troubles reach a summit when Mary hits a native, who does not want to obey her silly commands, with the whip across his face.Īs soon as Dick has recovered she tells him how he mismanages the farm and they make plans to make a better profit by sowing tobacco plants. She can’t and even won’t treat the labours in the right way and the natives refuse to be commanded by a woman. Then Dick falls ill and Mary has to do his work in the fields with the natives. His inability to complete things he started, costs a lot of money.
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Due to misconceptions she can’t find a way to contact with her neighbours and the relation with her husband is full of difficulties.ĭick is unable to make a good profit, his plans with bees, with pigs, turkeys and later with a kaffir-store fail. As a result they run away and she has to do the housework by herself. Mary, who has never lived close to natives, isn’t able to see them as human beings and doesn’t want to except their different customs and behaviour. When she is 30, she wants to be married and she finds a victim in Dick Turner, an unsuccessful farmer who lives under bad circumstances in poor cramped quarters. She moves into town and gets a good job, a lot of friends but an impersonal life in a large social environment. As soon as possibly she takes care for a better life. Mary’s parents are poor her mother is an always complaining woman and her father’s best friend is the booze. Boekverslag : Doris Lessing - The Grass Is Singingĭe taal ervan is Nederlands en het aantal woorden bedraagt 662 woorden.