Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook: An Exposed Position

“Why aren’t you honest with me Anna?’. . . he began examining “‘Wher notebooks, his back set in stubborn opposition to the possibility of her preventing him. . . . Anna sat still, terribly exposed . . .” (Lessing 1973, 272). When Tommy reads Anna’s notebooks and decides that she is “dishonest,” that her previous concealment of the notebooks is “arrogant” (274), and that she is “making patterns out of cowardice” (275), Anna feels presence of “some invisible enemy. . . something evil. . . an almost tangible shape of malice and destruction” (270). When Tommy goes home immediately attempts