Friday, March 30, 2007

Question One for "The Doll's House"

In “The Doll’s House,” Katherine Mansfield’s narrator comments frequently. Find one of the narrator’s comments and discuss what effect it has on how we feel about the story.

Posted by Brad at 3/30/2007 10:33:00 AM

5 comments:

olivia said...

In “The Doll’s House”, the narrator comments “the line had to be drawn somewhere.”, the narrator wants to discuss the social class rank is existed even in the elementary school so clear. In addition, the comment emphasize Kelveys position-in lower class that affects we feel sorry about Kelveys’ misfortune.

April 2, 2007 at 12:11 AM
zahra said...
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April 3, 2007 at 10:27 AM
zahra said...

In the story, “The Doll’s House”, one of the narrator’s comments shows the rich people’s condition. For example, Aunt Beryl is a typical ugly rich person who looks down on the poor. We see a lot of Aunt Beryl in our society; that may be one of the reasons Mansfield includes her character in the story. When she says, “Run away, children, run away at once.” She may feel like a queen talking to her slaves who make her feel superior and powerful. It has emotionally effect on us and it makes us feel sorry about Kelveys.

April 3, 2007 at 10:55 AM
inaya said...

In ,"The Doll's House," the narrator comments come also with a dialogue between the charaters,"going to be a servant."The message is to tell the reader how high class people think about lower class people. The message makes me think deeply in the society of high class people,and it forces me to reflect the reality of how the Kelveys symbolizes many people in the world.

April 9, 2007 at 3:17 PM
cynthia said...

In “The Doll’s House”, some of the narrator’s comments make the readers feel unjustifiable for Mrs. Kelvey. When the narrator describes she is a “spry, hardworking” person which suppose is a compliment to her but this does not make her to become respectable. Still, all of the town’s people isolate her children and tease her family. Obviously, Mrs. Kelvey’s fate is not destined by how she does but by what the family she belongs.

P.S. I post this comment again because I posted it under the first question of "A Respectable Woman" on April 3rd.

April 10, 2007 at 12:33 PM

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