A Cup Of Martin
(Katherine Beauchamp)
She called herself Katherine Mansfield, after ner grandmother, when she came to London- was born at Wellington (New Zealand) on the 16th of October 1988. She spent her early years in New Zealand where she developed her love of nature. Her family was one of those settled early in New Zealand and her first impressions of life were naturaly derived from those family traditions and the raw environment in which she was brought up.
She came to write her short stories from 1911 on. She observed life keenly and joyfully like a child and her essentially poetic temperament helped her to draw out the hidden significance of things. Beside, she belived, like a true poet, in the art of suggestion. She takes up a situation or a moment in the life of a character and outlines its possibilities. She was as much aware of the evils, hypocrisies, self-deceptions of life as of the blessings of life. Her work is a real critiicism of life.
A Cup of Tea may be read at different levels. The season and the weather call for a cup of tea. Miss Smith begs of Rosemary just the price of a cup of tea. Rosemary, who herself looks forward to it, takes the girl home. Apparently moved by the girl's wretched misery, she promises to 'look after' her. But her husband's remarks change the entire situation.
Note the satire and irony that characterisize the author's portrayal of Rosemary.
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