Week 7 : Catherine Mansfield... Wearing the sun.
The Daughters of the late Colonel.
I found Mansfield's prose really interesting, she made me realise that the most important events in our lives aren't quite the world-moving moments which we tend to remember, rather, it's the mundane, daily goings on which then lead to the life-altering moments which pave the path to the various choices in our lives...
The story about Jugs and Con was a symbolic representation of the role of women in the early 20th Century society - about personal and cultural status, freedom and the common feminine traits of domesticity and sense of duty to loved ones.
We also had some discussions about The daughters of the late Colonel : here are a couple of my contribution to said discussion:
I like pasting my discussion responses, it saves me from repeating myself and I'd like to think that my contribution to discussions can sometimes have a touch of perceptiveness and a shade of thought.
I found Mansfield's prose really interesting, she made me realise that the most important events in our lives aren't quite the world-moving moments which we tend to remember, rather, it's the mundane, daily goings on which then lead to the life-altering moments which pave the path to the various choices in our lives...
The story about Jugs and Con was a symbolic representation of the role of women in the early 20th Century society - about personal and cultural status, freedom and the common feminine traits of domesticity and sense of duty to loved ones.
We also had some discussions about The daughters of the late Colonel : here are a couple of my contribution to said discussion:
I like pasting my discussion responses, it saves me from repeating myself and I'd like to think that my contribution to discussions can sometimes have a touch of perceptiveness and a shade of thought.