To Room Nineteen: Conflict Between Reason and Emotion

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structure revolved." Family and home are usually not referred to as "structure." Obviously, the Rawlings' regard for love, family and prosperity comes purely from an intellectual place.
Even Susan' reactions to Matthew's affairs is intellectual. Lessing refers to Matthew's confession of his first affair with Myra Jenkins as "banal." They both shrug it off as just something that happens, that shouldn't be any more hurtful emotionally than any other thing, since hurt emotions are a silly thing to waste energy on anyway. Naturally, Susan has to go to great lengths to convince herself not to fear. "Except, thought Susan, unaccountably bad-tempered, she was (is?) the first. In ten years. So either ten years' fidelity is not important, or she isn't. (No, no, there is something wrong with that way of thinking, there must be.)" First, it is interesting to note the use of "unaccountably bad-tempered." As if she woke up in a bad mood and can't decide why. Her bad temper would be ...

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