The Little Governess Analysis

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“The little governess” Katherine Mansfield The story under discussion is written by Katherine Mansfield. The story is taken from the collection of her best stories which was republished in 1981. Even before she died at the age of thirty-four Katherine Mansfield had achieved a reputation as one of the most talented writers of the modern short story in English. Mansfield was recognized as innovative, accessible, and psychologically acute. Her language was clear and precise; her emotion and reaction to experience carefully distilled and resonant. Her use of image and symbol were sharp, suggestive, and new. Her themes were various: the difficulties and ambivalences of families and sexuality, the fragility and vulnerability of relationships, the complexities and insensitivities of the rising middle classes, the social consequences of war. Perhaps something central about Mansfield's emotions in the difficult, unstable, defiant, lonely, searching years from 1908 to the end of 1911 is visible in "The Little Governess," which was apparently written shortly before its publication in early 1915. The title of the story has a direct reference to the content of the story. It contains a folded plot and the main idea of the story. Because the aim of it’s to send especial message to the reader. The definite article shows that the definite girl is described and this fact is very important for the plot development. The story is given through the eyes of the narrator. Because Katherine Mansfield narrates the story herself. She is invisible but she is easily felt behind the lines. The plot is easy to follow, the language is clear cut. There is no dramatic events, because no one is killed. There are many events, because the actions are not limited by a closed area. There is no introduction, but there is the main part where the writer introduced the protagonist - a young

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