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A 5 page analysis of the short story by Katherine Mansfield. For a brief moment, a ray of sunshine lifts the spirits of Josephine and Constantia Pinner, the middle-aged daughters of the recently deceased and tyrannical Colonel Pinner. For that one instant, author Katherine Mansfield demonstrates that they are both thinking of all the ways in which their lives might have been, could have been, different--only to have them fall back into the habits that have ruled their lives. No additional sources cited.
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demonstrates that in this moment, both women are thinking of all the ways in which their lives might have been, could have been, different. Then the moment fades, the sun
goes behind a cloud and the Misses Pinner cannot find the words to voice their feelings, their longings for a different life, even to each other. The story ends with
the rather depressing realization that the women will not use their new freedom from male authority to become individuals in their own right. Shallow and superficial, theyve been kept from
the sunlight too long to know how to follow it into another sort of life. The story occurs approximately a week after the Colonels death. From the beginning, Mansfield
shows that the women feel no real grief for their father. As she lies in bed wondering if she should die even her bed clothes black for the Victorian period
of mourning, Constantia marvels at how Josephine managed to cry a bit twenty-three times in a row as she wrote notes after the funeral. "Con," as her sister calls her,
knows that she couldnt have "put it on" twenty-three times (Mansfield 85). As the story progresses, Mansfield builds a characterization of the two women that reveals a great
deal about their lives while simultaneously showing the effect of their fathers tyranny through the superficiality of their personalities. The overriding concern of both sisters is with appearances. They dont
particularly like Nurse Andrews, yet they invite her to stay a week as their guest after their father passes away. Its the "proper" thing to do in order to show
their gratitude for her care of their father; however, even this supposed gratitude is a sham. Both sisters resent the fact that Nurse Andrews did not ever leave the room
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