The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing: Characters:
30 Jan 2010 Harriet Lovatt: Harriet is, what others might want to say, stubborn, conservative, old-fashioned. She is the mother of 5 children and the wife of. Complete summary of Doris Lessing.s The Fifth Child. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Fifth Child. 4 Dec 2010 Her fifth pregnancy is not only unplanned, but also unusually painful and The birth of their fifth child, Ben, changes both their family life and.The Fifth Child is a short novel by the British writer Doris Lessing, first published in the United Kingdom in 1988, and since translated into a number of languages. 31 Jan 2010 Harriet felt as though she was the scapegoat of the family, the “destroyer of the family” It wasn.t in her nature to leave Ben in the institution and.
2 Feb 2010 Harriet and David are two people that practically knew each other before they met. They acted almost the same and had the same opinions. In the free love context of the nineteen-sixties, Harriet and David Lovatt are throwbacks to a more conservative, traditional, and family-oriented decade. Find all available study guides and summaries for The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing.