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Discussion starters:
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Characterize the relationship between Mr. and
Mrs. Hammond.
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What is the importance of Mr. Hammond's wait
at the dock?
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Sage says that Mrs. Hammond's report of the
death and the ship's delay was "as though she'd confessed to a
ship-board romance" (xix); how is the tension in the story heightened
by the conflation of Death as lover?
- Sage calls this story "a kind of homage
to James Joyce's 'The Dead'" particularly in its ability to
"marvelously [cast] death as a most accidental acquaintance"
(xviii). How does the story profit from comparison with Joyce?
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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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Sage, Lorna. Introduction. The
Garden Party and Other Stories. By Katherine Mansfield. New York:
Penguin, 1997. vii-xxi.
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