1 Analysis of reticular structures
　　Under the serious circumstance，Doris Lessing wrote the monument book-The Golden Notebook.The book，a story of writer Anna Wulf，intersperses segments of an ostensibly realistic narrative of the lives of Molly and Anna，their children，ex-husbands and lovers-entitled Free Women-with excerpts from Anna’s four notebooks.
　　The black notebook records her writer’s life，especially her thinking on her maiden novel Frontiers of War.The black notebook concerns Anna’s recall and reflection of her time in Central Africa during World War II，and the events leading up to the writing of Frontiers of War.The red notebook records Anna’s political life.The yellow notebook is Anna’s novel named The Shadow of the Third which concerns her emotional life.It’s Anna’s novelistic attempt to see herself in perspective，by means of a thinly disguised fictional alter ego.In the blue notebook，Anna records her daily life to shape the Anna in reality.The inner golden notebook is the fifth one，in which Anna integrates the various experiences depicted separately in each notebook to attain wholeness of vision.
　　The Golden Notebook doesn’t have chapters or sections but consists of a conventional novel Free Women and five coloured notebooks of black，red，yellow，blue and golden in order.The Golden Notebook is the conclusion of the four coloured notebooks，we could better understand Free Women is the book written by Anna after her collapse only when we have read The Golden Notebook.If there are not the notebooks，it is impossible for us to learn something Anna’s past life-her politic ideal，her emotion，and her conscience as a writer.The four coloured notebooks，the inner golden notebook，and Free Women are the relative nodes in the novel’s net.Although Free Women totally implies traditional narrative methods，its plots carry out an undertaking from start to the end，while the logic of narration is coherent.Nevertheless，Lessing believes that this kind of coherence in meaning，and the concession of plots，and the unified characters would make a huge closeness in the course of writing.It neither reflects the chaotic and disordered world in reality，nor demonstrates Anna’s fragmented ego.Free Women is cut by notebooks featuring different colors，themes，and various writing features，and then she put these fragments into Free Women to weave a net-like structure for the book.
　　The conventional novel Free Women appears the four coloured notebooks in succession of black，red，yellow，and blue.This pattern repeats four times and after the fourth repeating，it comes Anna’s inner golden notebook，from which the whole book gets its name，and then the book is concluded with a final Free Women fragment.There is a formula to explain the complex structures of the novel： （1+4）+（1+4）+（1+4）+（1+4）+（1+1）=22.In the formula，figure 1 refers to one of the fragments of Free Women，and figure 4 refers to one of part of the four coloured notebooks，and the form of（1+4）repeats four times.The last one consists of one the last part of Free Women and the inner golden notebook.These fragments consist of The Golden Notebook.

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