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The Doll's House
Mansfield shows the cruelty of the society in the way the Kelvey girls, Lil and Else, are treated. They are the daughters of a poor washerwoman, and their father, it is rumored, is in jail. But...
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The Doll's House
Lil Kelvey and her sister Else find themselves decidedly on the outside of the "popular" girls' circle at school. They have no extra money to spare; their mother washes clothes by going from house...
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The Doll's House
Kezia is the youngest and kindest of the Burnell sisters, and it is this indiscriminate kindness that gets her into trouble. The Burnell girls are given beautiful and meticulously decorated doll...
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The Doll's House
Isabel is the oldest of the Burnell girls, and she is rather imperious. She is described as "bossy" though typically right in all matters, and so her younger sisters, Lottie and Kezia, defer to...
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The Doll's House
The doll house is a gorgeous and thoughtful gift from a family friend—utterly unnecessary and quite unexpected. One would imagine that its recipient would be surprised and grateful, expressing her...
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The Doll's House
The school has children from all different walks of life, from the upper-crust Burnells right down to the Kelveys, who are very much from the wrong side of the tracks. It's not by choice that the...
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The Doll's House
Aunt Beryl's thoughts regarding the new doll house are noted in the first paragraph: For, really, the smell of paint coming from that doll’s house (“Sweet of old Mrs. Hay, of course; most sweet...
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The Doll's House
The duo-protagonists in Katherine Mansfield's The Doll's House are sisters—Lil and Else Kelvey: They were the daughters of a spry, hardworking little washerwoman, who went about from house to...
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The Doll's House
In Katherine Mansfield's short story "The Doll's House," the Burnell children attend the only school in the neighborhood. As there is no other school for miles, this small community school has an...
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The Doll's House
Mrs. Burnell, the girls' mother, agrees to let the other children come to her home, two at a time, in order to see the beautiful doll house that the girls received as a gift from a family friend....
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The Doll's House
Else's statement at the end of the story was "I seen the little lamp." Told in a colloquial way, the phrase refers to the fact that she, Else, had the opportunity to look at the miniature lamp that...
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The Doll's House
The doll's house given to the Burnell daughters is incredibly detailed, with lots of little objects that delight the girls and make the house seem even more special. Kezia, though, prefers a tiny...
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The Doll's House
Kezia and Else, despite coming from very different backgrounds, both seem to possess an innocence that other children have grown out of as a result of their understanding of how adults feel. For...
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The Doll's House
The doll's house is a generous and expensive gift sent to the family by a friend, Mrs. Hay, after she'd visited and returned to her home in town. The doll's house is quite detailed, with plush...
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The Doll's House
The Kelvey girls are the object of scorn in their town. The Burnell parents don't appreciate having their daughters in the same school with common children, such as the children of the storekeeper...
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The Doll's House
"The Doll's House", by Katherine Mansfield, is a story that treats the topics of social inequality, injustice, money as a tool of power, the shallowness of human dynamics. Social inequality,...
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The Doll's House
In “The Doll’s House,” Kezia Burnell is the youngest of the Burnell girls. Aware of the luxury of the doll house they receive, she finds it enchanting. She is particularly fascinated by a miniature...
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The Doll's House
In Katherine Mansfield’s story, the characterization of the two mothers is primarily indirect. Mrs. Burnell is not described physically at all. We learn about her through a few phrases and from the...
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The Doll's House
In this excellent story there are actually very few round characters. Remember that a flat character can be compared to a paper doll - they are two dimensional, with only one or two key personality...
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The Doll's House
As the younger Burnell child, Kezia knows how it feels to be excluded from decisions and acceptance. While the older Isabel is allowed to determine all the rules governing the display of the...
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The Doll's House
The lamp in the story “The Doll’s House, ” by Katherine Mansfield, stands out in the eyes of Kezia as something so unique that it is worthy of telling everyone about it. In turn, Kezia’s words...
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The Doll's House
The attitudes that are regarded as those of typical adults are those that come in direct conflict with those of the children. Despite of being rich and privileged, the Burnell sisters bypass social...
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The Doll's House
This excellent story is as much about social division as it is about anything else. The doll's house, which becomes the status symbol for the Burnell girls, emphasises that, even amongst children,...
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The Doll's House
Snobbery is depicted in Mansfield's "The Doll's House" with the social stratification described in the narrative and with the spoken words and actions of the Burnells. After "dear old Mrs. Hay" has...
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The Doll's House
The answer is that Else, who is the younger sister of Lil, felt happy because she was able to see the famous, miniature oil lamp that was part of the decoration of the Burnell sisters' doll's...
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The Doll's House
"The Doll's House", a story by Katherine Mansfield, treats the topic of social injustice and class distinction under the scope of two different children, Kezia and Else, reacting to something that...
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The Doll's House
It is interesting to compare Kezia with her sisters and how they treat the Doll's House. It is clear that for her sisters, the Doll's House becomes a valuable "chip" with which they can play and...
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The Doll's House
It is clear that this story is written in response to social and class divisions that leave some people shunned and excluded from the rest of their community. This is clearly shown in this story...
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The Doll's House
Katherine Mansfield's story "The Doll's House" has an omniscient narrator who enters the minds of different characters at various points in the story. With this technique, Mansfield intently...
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The Doll's House
Central to understanding this excellent short story is that Kezia and Else are part of the same society, but also come from two different worlds in terms of their class. This is why the Burnells...
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The Doll's House
In Mansfield's "The Doll's House," the Burnell children are not allowed to associate with the Kelvey girls. The Burnell girls are members of the upper-class and a family friend (Mrs. Hay) has sent...
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The Doll's House
Isabel Burnell, Kezia's oldest sister, is allowed to choose the first two girls who might be invited from their school to come and see their new doll's house. The Burnell girls are not allowed to...
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The Doll's House
Most definitely. I cannot think of any work of literature that does not actually have some form of conflict that drives it, and this excellent short story by Mansfield is no exception. As with many...
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The Doll's House
Kezia stands out from her two sisters, Isabel and Lottie, in many ways. We notice early in the story that she possesses a deeper sense of aesthetic susceptibility in that her immediate focal point...
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The Doll's House
The best way of finding out the answer to this question is of course to read it, however, I will summarise the main characters for you. There are two families that are referred to in the story: the...
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The Doll's House
The dollhouse is a symbol of privilege among the upper class. The Burnell sisters receive the dollhouse as a gift and are permitted by their parents to show it off at school. This only heightens...
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The Doll's House
In Katherine Mansfield's short story "The Doll's House", the character of aunt Beryl epitomizes the classicist nature of a society where the comforts and luxuries of the upper classes are...
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The Doll's House
When people suffer from social alienation, as it is in the case of some cultural groups for example, the observable tendency is that those who have been alienated will come together, using their...
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The Doll's House
The characters in the short story "The Doll's House" are the following: Lil Kelvey- the older of the two Kelvey sister. She is often seen in a protective role, as Else Kelvey always follows her...
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The Doll's House
The two social class descriptions that are present in Katherine Mansfield's short story "The Doll's House" are the upper class, which is represented by the Burnell sisters, and the very poor, lower...
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The Doll's House
The oil lamp in the story "The Doll's House" by Katherine Mansfield, is the object entirely catches the attention of Kezia Burnell: A privileged young girl who receives the gift of a doll's house...
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The Doll's House
In this excellent short story by Katherine Mansfield, we are presented with the Burnell sisters, called Isabel, Lottie and Kezia, who are given a large doll's house, a marvellous toy that delights...
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The Doll's House
Katherine Mansfield's short story "The Doll's House" shows that people will always gravitate toward those who are considered social or financial "betters". The Burnell girls, who are rich and come...
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The Doll's House
The Kelvey girls are from the lower class, whereas the other girls in the story are from families of a higher social status. It is important to note the setting of this short story is a small...
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The Doll's House
Central to understanding the story is realising how Mansfield is using the Kelvey sisters and the way they are treated to point out how cruelly class distinctions lead others to treat those who...
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The Doll's House
A Doll's House is a play about a woman, Nora, who struggles in a marriage that is controlling. Because her husband, Torvald, is controlling and treats her as a possession, Nora eventually leaves...
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The Doll's House
The inciting incident in this brilliant short story is outlined to us in the first few lines of the tale, when we see the way in which a gift can be used to heighten social divisions and...
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The Doll's House
The doll house is symbolic of the upper class people in this society. The Burnell children would have attended a ritzy private school had there been one nearby, but as it is, their school is the...
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The Doll's House
Mansfield's main theme in "The Doll's House" is the injustices and cruelty associated with class distinctions. Set in colonial New Zealand, Mansfield shows that differences set along...
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The Doll's House
The theme of this story revolves around class distinctions and discrimination. Society is obsessed with appearance, and this plays into class separations. The rich are respected not because the...