All the Years of Her Life | A Manifold Voice
In the following essay excerpt, Walsh discusses ‘‘All the Years of Her Life,’’ focusing on the ‘‘moment[ s] of consciousness—of true recognition’’ in the story.
It would be hard to find a writer who contrasts more vigorously with Katherine Mansfield than the Canadian Morley Callaghan, whom I wish to consider now. For one thing he works at a much greater psychic distance from, and with a considerably lower degree of sympathy for, the English literary tradition, in which Katherine Mansfield felt so intimately at home. For another, there is in his work, as in that of other Canadians writing in English, a further strain, an implicit sense of oppression by the powerful tradition of the United States. Moreover, Morley Callaghan is a writer whose...
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