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Katherine Mansfield
This entire short story is filled to the brim with imagery and symbolism. The main ongoing symbol for Miss Meadows's emotions is also the title, "The Singing Lesson." As her thoughts and emotions...
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Katherine Mansfield
"The Singing Lesson" opens with Miss Meadows in the position of jilted lover, details her thought process regarding the embarrassment of a failed engagement, and concludes with her willing return...
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Katherine Mansfield
One of the most important themes of the story is that of despair. Indeed, we're introduced to the theme right from the very first line: With despair—cold, sharp despair—buried deep in her heart...
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Katherine Mansfield
Initially, Rosemary wants to give Miss Smith the gift of tea and sympathy. Even though Miss Smith only asked for some money to buy herself a cup of tea, Rosemary sees this as a great opportunity to...
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Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield excels at revealing the inner thoughts of her protagonists, and their limitations and struggles. This story is no exception. In "An Ideal Family," we are shown the thoughts of...
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Katherine Mansfield
A major theme in Mansfield’s work is that of the young (usually female) protagonist learning about the world, becoming aware of the complexities and the darker side of life and human nature. This...
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Katherine Mansfield
The title is appropriate because a cup of tea symbolizes Rosemary's somewhat shallow concern for the welfare of the poor young lady she meets in the street. Inviting Miss Smith back to her...
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Katherine Mansfield
In "A Cup of Tea," Rosemary walks into a shop and sees a beautiful and expensive little box that costs twenty eight guineas. She asks the proprietor to keep it for her, and it seems evident that...
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Katherine Mansfield
The direct method of characterization is used by the narrator to describe a character with explicit detail. This means that the character's physical characteristics will be clearly explained...
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Katherine Mansfield
Ian French of the short story "Feuille d'Album" by Katherine Mansfield appears at first to be what the title indicates: a person on a page of an album (feuille=page) since he is static in his...
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Katherine Mansfield
This, like so many of Katherine Mansfield's short stories, is based around class-consciousness and the completely different worlds that people of different classes live in. The central conflict is...
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Katherine Mansfield
I must admit that one of the qualities I really appreciate about the short fiction of Katherine Mansfield is the way that her stories often linger on in our minds and can haunt us. Out of the many...
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Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield, born Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp, left her native New Zealand for London when she was nineteen and lived in Europe for most of her life until she died in 1923, at 34, from...
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Katherine Mansfield
Mansfield uses a form of third-person limited narration that gets us inside of Miss Meadows's head. At the same time, the third-person perspective keeps a distance between the reader and Miss...
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Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield closely ties setting to theme in “The Garden Party” as she highlights the sharp contrast between the upper and lower classes. Mansfield describes the elaborate party plans for...
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Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield makes it clear that female jealousy in "A Cup of Tea" comes from personal insecurity rather than simply desiring what others have. Rosemary is an intelligent, rich, and lovely...
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Katherine Mansfield
In "A Cup of Tea" a wealthy lady by the name of Rosemary is out shopping. During her latest retail therapy session she visits an antique shop, where she examines a charming little box that...
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Katherine Mansfield
The issues focused on in the short fiction of Katherine Mansfield seem to try to explore and depict the various challenges facing women in her context. In particular, the position of women in a...
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Katherine Mansfield
"A Married Man's Story" by Katherine Mansfield is an unfinished story whose confessional narrative is a series of revelations that also are unfinished; nevertheless, they build upon one another to...
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Katherine Mansfield
In "A Cup of Tea," the wealthy Mrs. Fell is approached by a poor young woman named Miss Smith, who asks for enough money to buy a cup of tea. Mrs. Fell is delighted with her. Feeling as if she is...
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Katherine Mansfield
Loneliness is of course an excellent theme of this great short story. However, it appears that the loneliness of Mr. Neave is mostly to do with his age. He is isolated by his tiredness, and the way...
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Katherine Mansfield
Basil comes across as quite a cruel, unfeeling man. The callous way he breaks off his engagement to Miss Meadows only to renew it later on as if nothing had happened is something that most of us...
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Katherine Mansfield
Insecurity is an important theme in the story. Reggie is very apprehensive at the prospect of asking Anne's parents for her hand in marriage. Reggie is full of self-questioning and reproach; he...
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Katherine Mansfield
If we look at a range of Mansfield's excellent short stories we can see that two families are used again and again in her fiction. In "The Garden Party" for example, the Sheridan family, with their...
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Katherine Mansfield
One theme may be that social class is real. The plot involves a man and a women who used to be lovers who meet again. Then man expresses a feeling that social class does not mean anything, and...
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Katherine Mansfield
The question refers to Mansfield’s story “An Ideal Family.” Mr. Neave’s dream life articulates his fears and anxieties about how life has passed him by, his loneliness in the midst of his family,...
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Katherine Mansfield
Interestingly, both of these stories feature female protagonists who are variously trapped in positions of poverty, dependence and oppression of various types. Note how in "The Little Governess"...
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Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield presents us with the demise (end) of love in these two short stories. In "Bliss," Bertha Young is ecstatically happy with her life as a young married mother; however, we sense...
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Katherine Mansfield
Very interesting question. Well, of course to a certain extent every author's work is dependent to a large extent on their life. Katherine Mansfield was born in New Zealand, but throughout her...
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Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield was a very experienced woman in terms of social relationships, and strove to have power within them. Her early life was materially secure but emotionally turbulent as her father...
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Katherine Mansfield
It's important to understand that Modernist literature was a reaction to Victorian literature, where there were strict rules of conduct and social expectations, a sense of order, and usually a...
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Katherine Mansfield
The loss of Mansfield's brother in World War I was a seismic event in Mansfield's life, that definitely shook her up and made her struggle with her grief for many years after. Also, in response to...
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Katherine Mansfield
This is a beautiful story! I short, it is about a young woman who has never been to a ball before. She goes with her cousin. She is at first enchanted by all the beautiful people. The men come...