I would argue that these two masterpieces share a similarity on more levels than just the aforementioned thematic one. One reason for this is that the themes touched upon in both novels are numerous and are not confined to those traditionally mentioned by critics – the relationship of the colonizer and the colonized or the situation of women – but have a far wider reach. The other reason has to do with aspects other than the setting, the historical context or the story: the structures of the two novels and the thought processes of the two protagonists show too striking a similarity to be overlooked. With these parallels in mind, I will, in what follows, concentrate on enumerating the ways in which the latter text alludes to the former one. I will argue, then, that there is a deep intertextual relationship between The Grass Is Singing and In the Heart Of the Country not only on the level on their themes, but also on the level of the characters, names, relationships, attitudes (both of the narrators' towards the characters and of the characters' towards themselves and the world around them), and symbols. Not all of these parallels are, of course, based on one-to-one correspondences, but, in most cases, are merely evoked through subtle allusions. (Introduction)