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Discussion starters:
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Who is the protagonist in this story?
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Dickson opens her argument by stressing how
important it is "to see the inter-relationships between the character
in the objective world and the character in his private, subjective world
(7). How would you define these two worlds and which characters move
between them?
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Kobler notes the use of a limited
stream-of-consciousness technique in this story (22); where do you
find that occurring and what is its practical effect?
- Like many modernist stories an inexperienced
reader will find herself/himself frustrated with the lack of plot in this
story? How would you respond to someone who asks what this story is
"about"?
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Critical Sources:
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Dickson, Katherine Murphy. Katherine
Mansfield's New Zealand Stories. Lanham, MD: UP of America, 1998.
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Kobler, J.F. Katherine Mansfield: A
Study of the Short Fiction. Boston: Twayne, 1990.
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