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Summary: In Doris Lessing's "Through the Tunnel," Jerry, an 11-year-old boy, experiences significant character development through his interactions with older boys at a wild bay. Initially...
When Jerry’s mother decides to spend another day at their usual beach and he sets off on his own down to the separate rocky bay, he is seemingly happy to be alone. When he sees a group of older boys , though, Jerry is eager to impress them with his swimming abilities.
In "Through the Tunnel," Jerry's relationship with the other boys is marked by a desire for acceptance and a need to prove himself. Unlike the local boys who are confident and...
Jerry’s character presents the story’s central conflict as he continually negotiates between two primary, warring desires: the desire to remain safe and dependent versus the desire to take risks, find independence, and prove himself as a man.
Jerry sees this beach as one for a boy—not a man, which is how he longs to see himself. This desire for maturity, and the risk involved in attaining it, are represented by the rocky, dangerous beach.
Jerry is an eleven-year old English boy on vacation with his mother on a beach they have frequented in the past. Jerry’s mother is a widow and is sometimes overprotective, sometimes not protective enough, of her son. Jerry attempts to make friends with some older boys on the beach, but they ignore him after discovering he is childish.
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Expert Answers. When Jerry first encounters these "big boys -- men to [him]," they're described as being "of that coast, all of them burned smooth dark brown, and speaking a language he did not...
