Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield's short story "Miss Brill" introduces an aging, lonely woman living in Paris during 1922. The fictional character, Miss Brill is depicted as disillusioned and desperately seeking acceptance from society in which she lives. As a solution to escaping her isolation, she repeatedly takes a Sunday afternoon stroll to the Jardins Publiques park where she thinks of herself as an actress performing to an audience. Adorned to her precious fur, she sees herself as an active,…

likely to own expensive items as much as higher-classes may have, and many forms of society consist of each class; therefore, a lower-class member may be an outsider within a group of higher-class people. The short story The Doll’s House by Katherine Mansfield, describes a situation in which a wealthy family owns a dollhouse for everyone to see, except the lowest class children, the Kelveys. As told from a third point of view, “Many of the children, including the Burnells, were not allowed even…

world. Helen Keller, who was blind and deaf at the age of nineteen months, was one of the most influential blind and deaf people. She first had to be taught about her surroundings. The person who helped her accomplish what she did name was Anne Mansfield Sullivan. Once Anne had helped Helen, Helen began to make impact on the world around her. She attended college and earned a bachelor's degree, the first blind and deaf person to do so. Her stand was in thirty nine different countries. She…

Symbolism “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, “A&P” by John Updike, and “Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield all display symbolism. Authors often use symbolism to add depth and communicate a deeper idea because they want their readers to think about what the symbol presented represents. Symbols are used when representing things such as objects and even people, having an abundance of meanings, the symbol can be clear and easy to understand while sometimes it may have to be…

assault never ceases to shake their lives. Despite the initial shock, horror, and pain of loss over time all wounds heal. In 1915 Katherine Mansfield lived this tragedy when her beloved younger brother passed away. Soon after she was diagnosed with extrapulmonary tuberculosis, which ultimately led to her death in 1923. In her story "The Garden Party" Katherine Mansfield enthralls her readers as she immerses them into her journey of facing death through the eyes of the lovely young girl, Laura,…

To explore the deeper implications of gender conformity, one must first approach the broader expectations of society itself. Long-held traditions maintain a particular status-quo, in turn dividing groups into roles meant to limit the possibility of any social borders being crossed. The so-called norm, therefore, becomes interchangeable with the confinement of individuals into categories of race, gender, and class. In regard to the divide seen between men and women specifically, the latter has…

To what extent are modernist works more interested in the inner world of the imagination and subjective perception than the outer world of social life? Discuss with reference to two texts. The works of ‘Miss Brill’ by Katherine Mansfield (1920) and Tonio Kroger by Thomas Mann (1903) include fundamental modernist characteristics, such as a fragmented structure, free indirect discourse and an epiphany. These literary techniques help shape the struggle both authors present between the inner world…

Several short stories have criticized the characteristics of the upper class in England; Authors, Oscar Wilde and Katherine Mansfield, have criticized the upper class through their stories. Katherine Mansfield’s stories “The Doll House,” “A Cup of Tea,” and “The Garden Party,” and Oscar Wilde’s story, “Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime,” portray how the upper class tends to be self-centered, untruthful, insensitive, and superficial. The first negative characteristic of the upper class is their…

Name: The Garden Party Text Type: Short story Author: Katherine Mansfield The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield is a coming of age story, exploring a moment of realisation and the issue of societal classes. The opening description of the Sheridan residence is like a dream. Everything is delightful, extravagant, a perfect family organising a magnificent garden party. It suggests a wealthy and happy family, highlighted by imagery, ‘haze of light gold.’ Nothing is wrong, but it seems…

Ignorance is living a comfortable life with eyes shut down, it is a subject that has been depicted in both stories Bliss and Marriage à la Mode that through their ignorance and materialism awful realizations conflicted the main characters. In Bliss where a young married couples lack intimacy and connections whose concerns revolves around their modernity, reality have hit them with a shocking affair. In Marriage à la mode where a life changing decision is being postponed for temporary amusements…