![]() ![]() This 1922 story also takes death as one of its main themes: it focuses on two sisters, whose father has recently died. Several of Mansfield’s best-known stories focus on death: see ‘The Garden Party’, her 1920 story about a young woman who is greatly shaken by the death of a man from the local village. Katherine Mansfield, ‘ The Daughters of the Late Colonel’. What has happened to him? We follow Elizabeth’s thoughts and fears across the course of one evening as she waits for her husband to return.Ĩ. When Lizzie’s husband doesn’t come home from his work down the mine, she is angry … and then worried. The story focuses on a miner’s wife, Lizzie Bates, living among the mining communities of Nottinghamshire. ![]() If Joyce’s story is about the psychological fallout that might follow the death of someone we know, this 1911 story, one of Lawrence’s earliest stories, is about how a young wife gradually begins to fear the worst when her husband doesn’t come home after work one night. The opening story in Joyce’s 1914 collection Dubliners, ‘The Sisters’ is narrated by a young boy whose friendship with a recently deceased Catholic priest, Father Flynn, starts to concern him as the narrator picks up rumours and whispers about the priest’s behaviour and reputation.ĭid Flynn do something wrong? Joyce doesn’t tell us – but the boy’s dreams and nightmares suggest that he may have been aware of something improper concerning the priest’s actions but, being only a child at the time, he had repressed it.ħ. ![]()
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