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In literature, culture is the set of values, beliefs, customs, and activities of a specific group of people at a specific time. It can also refer to the way of life for a society, including its arts, institutions, and beliefs. The people of different places have varying perceptions like identification of objects and interpretation of depth, specific rituals and customs as it is seen in Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing where two people of different culture suffer from humiliation and chaos that brings a catastrophic end of the story. The crisis of identity in cross-culture environment is portrayed as a common theme in The Grass is Singing in the form of conflict as law aesthetics, religion, attitudes social organizations, family, community and a person’s role or status among others. Because of conflict in their behaviour patterns, identity and cultural values, the people are not able to share a bond with one another and the community. Subsequently, spending long time in different culture, the eternal forms of culture are changed but the internal form does not change and because of this the crisis of identity occurs. The repressed anger and desire of living freely in the society compel the individual to go against the law as it occurs in The Grass is Singing. People living in different cultural settings have varying perceptions like identification of objects and interpretation of depth.
Ms.Arti Gupta. “Cross-Cultural Identity in Doris Lessing’s The Grass in Singing.” The Criterion: An International Journal in English, vol. 17, no. 3, June 2026, pp. 209-222. DOI, https://doi.org/10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.15.
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