"Wine"

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Wine" by Doris Lessing deals with the differences between men and women as it applies to sexuality, personality and evaluation or understanding of certain situations. It brings to light our societal stereotypes (as they were in the late fifties when this piece was written and even as they appear now), and our failing appreciation of one another as separate genders. The paper shows that with the use of merely one man and one woman, Lessing builds a path, based on both misconception and misunderstanding, that leads to a doorway into what she conceives is the truth about the depth any heterosexual relationship can actually achieve.

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"Even later yet, the woman refuses to follow his cue when he raises his glass of wine for a toast, though only the moment before she had loved him wholly. Unlike the couple first seen coming from the hotel, they now seem out of sync, uncoordinated, and almost strangers to one another. First, they had looked at ease and comfortable with each other, now they seem as they are simply coping. However, this is but a tidbit of their true personalities. The main course of their dysfunctional relationship is shown through their parallel memories."

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