The Golden Notebook
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Free Women: 1 The Notebooks: 1 Free Women: 2 The Notebooks: 2 Free Women: 3 The Notebooks: 3 Free Women: 4 The Notebooks: 4 The Golden Notebook Free Women: 5
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All Themes Fragmentation, Breakdown, and Unity Gender, Labor, and Power Love and Sex Communism and Disillusionment Action, Freedom, and Moral Courage Fact, Fiction, and Authorship
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All Characters Anna Wulf Janet Wulf Molly Jacobs Tommy Richard Portmain Marion Mrs Marks / Mother Sugar Willi Rodde Paul Blackenhurst Jimmy McGrath Ted Brown Maryrose George Hounslow Michael Saul Green Nelson Ella Julia Max Wulf George Dr West Patricia Brent Paul Tanner Ella’s Father Robert Brun Cy Maitland Jack Ivor Ronnie James Schafter De Silva Tom Mathlong Charlie Themba Mrs Boothby Jackson / The Cook Marie Comrade John Butte Stanley Lett
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All Terms Ceylon Nyasaland Veld Kopje McCarthyism The Rosenbergs Joseph Stalin National Service Conscientious Objector Quemoy The Kremlin Leucotomy Trotskyism Chekhov’s “The Darling” Soho F.L.N.
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All Symbols Anna’s Notebooks Anna’s Dreams
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The Golden Notebook

by

Doris Lessing

The Golden Notebook Symbols

Anna’s Notebooks

The majority of The Golden Notebook consists of the four colored notebooks in which Anna Wulf records her life, which symbolize her disjointed and compartmentalized identity. At least two of these colors have obvious significance…

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Anna’s Dreams

Anna’s blue notebook records her conversations with her psychoanalyst, Mrs Marks, which largely focus on Anna’s peculiar dreams. Whereas she feels emotionally blunted in real life, Anna notes that “all my creativity is…

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