A Cup of Tea By Katherine Mansfield Rosemary Fell was not exactly beautiful. No‚ you couldn ’t have called her beautiful. Pretty? Well‚ if you took her to pieces... But why be so cruel as to take anyone to pieces? She was young‚ brilliant‚ extremely modem‚ exquisitely well dressed‚ amazingly well read in the newest of the new books‚ and her parties were the most delicious mixture of the really important people and... artists - quaint creatures‚ discoveries of hers‚ some of them too terrifying for
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I really like "A Cup of Tea" a lot. It‚ among other things‚ does a brilliant job of depicting matrimonial jealousy and insecurity. Our lead character is a very wealthy young woman‚ Rosemary‚ seemingly recently married. Her time is largely taken up with looking for ways to spend money. As the story opens she has just bought a small box in an exquisite shop‚ the cost is about six months pay for an ordinary working man of the time Rosemary has been reading Dostoevsky lately and when she
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Analysis of the short-story “A Cup of tea” by Katherine Mansfield. The short story under analysis is written by Katherine Mansfield a famous New Zealand modernist writer. She is the one of the most successful short-story writers. Among her best-known stories are "The Garden Party"‚ "The Daughters of the Late Colonel" and "The Fly". And one of the most famous short-stories is “A cup of tea”. “A cup of tea” was originally published in the Story-Teller in the year 1922. The story is about society
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The story is written by Katherine Mansfield a famous New Zealand writer. She is well known for her short stories. The analysis of the one of them called A Cup of Tea (1922) which is considered to be one of her latest works you can find below. From the first lines we get acquainted with the protagonist of the story Rosemary Fell. Her appearance is being presented. No you couldnt have called her beautiful Pretty? We have rather vague image here. The author writes she is amazingly well-read in the
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Analysis of “A Cup of Tea”by Katherine Mansfield K.Vasiliev "A Cup of Tea" by Katherine Mansfield (1888 to 1923-New Zealand) is included in the 1923 collection of her work‚ The Dove’s Nest and Other Stories edited by Mansfield’s husband‚ John Middleton Murry. There is a very moving introduction to this collection in which Murry lets us know details about the next ten stories his wife was going to write. There is a temptation in reading Mansfield to see her work as artistically
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1 2 A CUP OF TEA BY KATHERINE MANSFIELD 3 4 5 Comment [LS1]: The title is linked to the central incident in the story and also acts as a linking device between Rosemary and Miss Smith. As Rosemary emerges from the antique shop in the cold‚ winter weather‚ she feels she ‘ought to go home and have an extraspecial cup of tea’. Immediately after that Miss Smith appears‚ begging desperately for something Rosemary has plenty of but which Miss Smith needs to sustain her existence. Miss
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Katherine Mansfield Katherine Mansfield‚ who lived from 1888 to 1923‚ is considered to be one of the most remarkable short story writers of her time. Using her life experiences as an inspiration for her short stories‚ Mansfield sculpted her ideas into masterful pieces of literary work. Mansfield ’s life was full of interesting experiences that shaped her outlook upon life. The diversity of friends and acquaintances Katherine Mansfield had over her lifetime also had a great influence on her career
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The opening passage in Katherine Mansfield’s short story "A Cup of Tea" introduces the protagonist in a manner that will serve to underscore the importance of irony to the tale. What is easy to miss in this deceptively pedestrian opening is the invitation to the reader to become part of the storytelling process through an unexpected interrelation with the implied reader: "no‚ you couldn’t have called her beautiful." Not much later‚ the reader is again made complicit in the telling of Rosemary Fell’s
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Rosie Gorrie Essay- writers consistently use short stories as a lens through which they scrutinise society. Katherine Mansfield uses short stories as lens‚ to show how during the 1920’s; in a society purely focused on keeping the old traditions alive and leaving new ways of thinking and change in the dark. Mansfield uses her short stories to uncover the harsh reality of gender biased marriages in which power and control were held by the male and how status and reputation allowed people to act a
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lacunae‚ and tensions of modern life. She was born in 1888 in Wellington‚ a town labeled “the empire city” by its white inhabitants‚ who modeled themselves on British life and relished their city’s bourgeois respectability.[1] At an early age‚ Mansfield witnessed the disjuncture between the colonial and the native‚ or Maori‚ ways of life‚ prompting her to criticize the treatment of the Maoris in several diary entries and short stories.[2] Mansfield’s biographer‚ Angela Smith‚ writes: “It was her
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