Summer before dark (Lessing's works)
"Choice? When to choose? Have I chosen? A woman, with a white dress and shoes, and a pink scarf tied around her neck, stood on the grass. Her appearance is the result of choice. Her clothes are exquisite, in line with her class identity, and she stayed here as someone's wife. Of course, as the mother of the children..." An ordinary summer day, Kate, a middle-aged housewife, has quietly collapsed after years of quiet life - her family is busy planning for the future, and her house is about to be rented. Kate is surprised that she has become a dispensable person. Disappointed, Kate left home and began a long summer trip. Three condensed periods of time, three unusual encounters, intertwined with a metaphorical dream, Kate lost in the atmosphere of freedom, and suddenly woke up in memory, wandering, thinking.
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