Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Note: 2,5, Universität Rostock (Institut für Anglistik), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: The short stories "To Room 19" by Doris Lessing and "Weekend" by Fay Weldon present two dissimilar woman who have problems to handle their lives in their families. As the quotation above shows, they have to take over a lot of different roles. This is sometimes very hard and demands a lot from the women. In my research paper I analyse what the problems in these two families are and how they have arisen. Moreover I have a detailed look at the attempts the characters make in both stories to solve these problems. Of course I also take into my analysis some theoretical questions of narrative fiction. An extensive comparison of the results I have made in both stories makes up the end of my paper.