Mrs. Bathurst | Understanding Kipling

In the following essay, the author suggests that the key to
understanding Kipling’s ‘‘Mrs. Bathurst’’ lies in its
structure.

If you have come away from ‘‘Mrs. Bathurst’’ more than a little confused and frustrated by its complexity, then rest assured that you are neither the first nor the last to do so. Since its growing popularity as one of Kipling’s most complex stories, ‘‘Mrs. Bathurst’’ has received a barrage of critical response, most of which takes for granted that the story is at once ‘‘obscure and puzzling,’’ filled with ‘‘misinformation,’’ ‘‘uncrackable,’’ and, as though Kipling were pleased by his audience’s frustrations, ‘‘teasingly ambiguous.’’...

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