 Another theme present is the symbolic nature of the house . Margaret Scanlan stated that as in books like Mansfield Park and Jane <unk> , The Good Terrorist " defines a woman in terms of her house " . Writing in the journal Studies in the Novel , Katherine <unk> said that Lessing often uses a house to symbolise " psychological or <unk> change " , and that here , " the house ... <unk> Alice 's function in the story " . Yelin described The Good Terrorist as " an urban , dystopian updating of the house @-@ as @-@ England genre , [ where ] ... England is represented by a house in London " . Writing in " Politics of <unk> Abuse : Political <unk> and <unk> <unk> in Doris Lessing 's The Good Terrorist " , <unk> and <unk> suggest that the house , and the " oppressive relations " in it , reflect the similarly oppressive relationships in the society it resides in . 
