Michelle
Roberts's "Your Shoes" and Doris Lessing's "Flight" both cast a central
character from similar circumstances and place her in a similar situation.
"Flight" is the Nobel-winning Lessing's 1957 short story about an
eighteen-year-old woman leaving her grandfather's home to get married. The transition from
family to matrimonial home causes strain on the relationship between the woman and her
protective grandfather on one hand and between the grandfather and his daughter on the
other.
In Michelle Roberts's "Your Shoes," the situation is
substantially similar, with only cosmetic differences...
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