"The Daughters of the Late Colonel"

detail from Paul Gauguin's Woman from Arles in the Public Garden: The Mistral (1888) housed at the Art Institute of Chicago

Discussion starters:

  • What significance do you place in the names Constantia and Josephine?

  • In what ways does the father's watch become a significant symbol?

  • What is important about the "forgetting" at the story's end?

  • What role does Nurse Andrews play in this story?

Critical Sources:

  • Dickson, Katherine Murphy.  Katherine Mansfield's New Zealand Stories.  Lanham, MD: UP of America, 1998.

  • Kobler, J.F.  Katherine Mansfield: A Study of the Short Fiction.  Boston: Twayne, 1990.

 

Return Home

Created by Stan Galloway 30 September 2003..  Last updated 30 September 2003.