Perspectives

Literary movement

The short story “Flight” by Doris Lessing can be considered a modernist work of fiction.

Modernist fiction sometimes presents events that are easily relatable with characters placed in normal, everyday circumstances. For exam…

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Works by the same author

Doris Lessing is also the author of “DHSS”. The story presents a woman from a disadvantaged economic background, struggling while the Department of Health and Social Security is on strike, while a former DHSS employer tries to help her. Unlike in “Flight”, where the focus is on family and growing up, “DHSS” presents a social issue, pointing at the gap between rich and poor people.

Another short story by Doris Lessing is “The Mother of the Child in Question”. The short story presents Stephen Bentley, a social worker, who visits a Pakistani family to discuss the situation of one of…