Moreover, the study concludes that Mary’s subsequent socio-cultural pressures intensified her psychological reactions until coincided with the avenging character, Moses who murders her. In other words, the present study builds on the following question: to what extent childhood events and socio-cultural troubles could lead to psychological traumas and disorders? Briefly, the study findings proved that Mary’s traumatic childhood and its unconscious painful memories were determinant factors to manifest character aberrations like hatred and aggressiveness. This study is important in the sense that it may help explaining numerous psychological disorders by referring them to childhood events and socio- cultural factors. In other words, the study analyses how the accumulated experiences of Mary’s childhood past, reinforced by present hardships, led her to develop psychological complexes and act upon them to end in her tragic death. There should be a few warnings on the cover of this short novel : contains no likeable characters and many descriptions of really disgusting racist. It aims to shed light on the variables that overlap during Mary’s successive life stages to end up in her being murdered. The present study is an attempt to investigate the character of Mary from a psychoanalytic perspective. Mary’s troubled experiences and unconscious accumulations cause her much suffering and pain in her adult life. When suddenly she hear her friends talk about her behind her back, they said’ that she must get a husband before she gets to old, and that she behave oneself if she were fifteen’. This aspect is embodied mainly through the protagonist, Mary Turner. The grass is singing by Doris Lessing Mary lives a peaceful life in town, she has a job at an office, and she lives at the club and is very happy about her life. However, the psychological dimension of this novel is also predominant.

Racism is probably one of the most important themes of the work. Lessing’s work The Grass is Singing sheds significant light on several socio-cultural, political, gender, feminist and psychological issues.

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