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A Comment on Katherine Mansfield’s A Dill Pickle
WANG Xiao-yan, LI Ze-ming
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2015.08.002
Changchun University, Changchun, China
Katherine Mansfield is a world famous woman master of short stories in English literature. Her stories are sensitive revelations of human behaiour in quite ordinary situations, through which we can glimpse a powerful, and sometimes cruelly pessimistic view of life. A Dill Pickle is one of her short stories published in 1917, describing the encounter between a young woman and a young man who have been lovers six years ago and their lost love and changes over the years. Short as it is, it is really worth our carful analysis and appreciation. This paper will comment on this short story from the following two aspects: a commont on the theme of the story; a comment on the writing technique of the story. The paper conludes that romantic love is dependent upon circumstances and the convergence of certain character traits at a particular time.
A Dill Pickle, Katherine Mansfield, theme, technique
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