The writer, Doris Lessing wrote an unusual short story. The subject is contemporary and mentions that how some men view women. There are three different male characters and each of them react and deal with the rejection from a woman with specific methods. The three men work on a roof of building and peep the neighbour woman, while she was sunbathing with her bikinis. The workers are: Harry, Tom and Stanley. Even the temperature is high they prefer to work on the roof for watching her. The woman on the roof ignore the three man at all. Next day the weather has changed and there is no sunbathers on the roof. The three men annoy the woman with the way their looks and they disturb her private life.
We can see more examples on the streets many male disturb womens while she was walking. It is very annoying. Also we can see the inequality between the male and female.
Yes, I think there are so many parallels between this story and what happens to women on the street in Turkey...it may help you to think about the story in the context of 1960s feminism and what the different men/the woman represent...
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