The L-Shaped Room

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them. I'm just not. it's like with doing up the room. Once you get started there's no end to it. They get friendly and soon they find out all about you, and your life's not your own any The L-Shaped Room - Jane is young, middle-class, single - and pregnant. Thrown out by her parents, she rents a squalid bedsit, where she struggles to overcome both her own prejudices and those of 1950s society. Starring Lynne Seymour as Jane, with John McAndrew as Toby.

Th e clever twist in the film is that Toby, visiting Jane in hospital after the baby is born, has written a short story called - of course - 'The L-Shaped Room'. But there is more consolation than Jane had imagined to be found in the community of fellow social outcasts she discovers within Doris’s domain. Don’t you go paying your rent on the dot, miss,” he advises. “You keep the old cow waiting, like she does me.” This sour old boy regards the ‘chippies’ in the basement as more honourable than ‘that old faggot’ Doris, with her cavalier attitude to the settlement of bills and disregard for current popular opinion on race relations. His speech is littered with references to ‘bobos’ who ‘have got to be kept in their place’, the casual deployment of which gives as tangible a feel for the attitudes of the time as the descriptive evocation of the place. You might yet find an L-shaped around the intersection with Lillie Road (which, charmingly, also has a junction with Munster Road). With its sagging masonry and second-hand furniture shops, this area seems to be loitering with intent. She forms friendships. With John, the affable musician who lives in the room next to hers. With Mavis, the elderly spinster who lives in the room below hers. And with Toby, a struggling writer, who could maybe become more than a friend.

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Perhaps some of my reluctance to fully embrace this story has something to do with the style of the writing, often very much “statement of fact”; almost wooden at times. But mostly I just did not find Jane as worthy of sincere interest and affection as I would have liked; this sort of story, to work for me, has to have a much more deserving-of-my-regard protagonist. I often felt that the fictional Jane created many of her own problems, then moped about stewing in her resultant misery, before being bailed out by various strangely willing “white knights”– her supervisor James, Toby and John, her father (who almost immediately after telling her to leave writes begging her to return), and, most improbably of all, her eccentric Aunt Addy, who appears out of the blue, after never being previously mentioned, offering succour at the most opportune moment. Each book is rated in its own context, NOT in comparison to the entire range of literature, which would, of course, be an impossible task. something. I was afraid of him at first, but he's so kind you couldn't hurt his feelings. And there's an old married couple on the first floor - they're always sending little notes asking me to have Jane herself is ashamed at the beginning of this story. Over the next 9 months, she matures and grows. She becomes aware of her own insecurities, phobias, fears, prejudices....and their irrelevance.

Her self-awareness and the way she analyses her feelings and those of people around make the novel transcend its period – although she dislikes Toby’s “useless fund of self-knowledge”. At times she wants to punish herself, and telling her father was like a bullfight, “I didn’t want to see the bull killed; I just wanted to know what it would do to me to see it.” There is warmth and humour too, including meeting someone “who wasn’t even the sort of person you could enjoy being rude to.”

the house by her father due to the aforementioned pregnancy, who has to find lodgings and ends up in the l-shaped room. The book opens with this scene: Haworth, Catherine; Colton, Lisa (3 March 2016). Gender, Age and Musical Creativity. Routledge. ISBN 9781317130055– via Google Books.

The l-shaped room. A dingey, grubby, awkward space in a run down boarding house. Jane could have afforded something better – she had savings, she still had her job – but she chose not to. Here is the scene in the film, where for some strange reason the names of the two prostitutes have been switched Oh, I've met them,' she said. 'You can't help it. That John. He looks after me like he was my mother or a b Crowther, Bosley (28 May 1963). "Screen: 'L-Shaped Room':Leslie Caron Grows Up in Harsh Story". The New York Times.it's funny - like, undignified.' She started going through her bag, making sure she had everything, like a woman going out for an ordinary evening. 'Girl I knew - Holy Roman she was,Irish It’s the latest in the book group’s post WWII literary explorations, during which I’ve had driven home to me how far white British writers have come in the last 60 years in the way they write about women and other ethnicities. Jane doesn’t intend to mix with the other residents of the boarding house, but they are curious about her and in time she is drawn out of the shell she constructed for herself. Jane is an endearing character. At first she came across as arrogant and snotty but maturity gives her depth.