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“This story is set in the late 1800s in New Zealand, which was then a colony of Great Britain. When the British emigrated there, they took with them not only their possessions but the social prejudices of their native land. At the time, British society was divided along rigid class lines. Birth usually determined a person’s class, and climbing the social scale was difficult. In her fiction, Mansfield criticized this elitist system.” The doll’s house Opening incident: the doll’s house arrives; Setting: it is set in the late 1800s in New Zealand; Complication: the Kelveys are not invited to see the doll’s house; Making of decision: Kezia finally invites the Kelveys to see it; Conclusion: the Kelveys get satisfied for having seen the house. Plot Protagonist and antagonist: it is difficult to establish the protagonist of this short story because Kezia and the little Kelveys have the same importance in the plot; Isabel, Lottie and Kezia Burnell; Lil and Else Kelveys; Mrs. Hay, Aunt Beryl and Pat; Emmie Cole, Lena Logan and Jessie May. Characters The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (1882), John Singer Sargent. Oil on canvas, 221.93 × 222.57 cm. Gift of Mary Louisa Boit, Julia Overing Boit, Jane Hubbard Boit and Florence D. Boit in memory of Edward Darley Boit. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Photo © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Apple Picking (1878), Winslow Homer. Watercolor and gouache on paper, laid down on board, 7˝ × 83/8˝. Daniel J. Terra Collection 1992.7. Photo © Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, Illinois/Art Resource, New York. Omniscient narrator (third-person and intruder); Direct comments. “Why don’t all houses open like that? How much more exciting than peering through the slit of a door into a mean little hall with a hat stand and two umbrellas! That is—isn’t it?—what you long to know about a house when you put your hand on the knocker. Perhaps it is the way God opens houses at dead of night when He is taking a quiet turn with an angel.” (p. 62-63); “And her little sister, our Else, wore a long white dress...” (p. 64). Point of view Somewhere in New Zealand’s countryside; The late 1800s; The Burnell’s house, the school and the roads. Setting Created by the action and words of characters, and by the tone of the narrator. “The Burnell children could hardly walk to school fast enough the next morning. They burned to tell everybody, to describe, to—well—to boast about their doll’s house before the school bell rang.” “Only the little Kelveys moved away forgotten; there was nothing more for them to hear.” “At last everybody had seen it except them [the Kelveys].” Atmosphere Concrete, denotative, conversational; Sentence patterns: simplicity; Economic, but in the use of descriptions of the doll’s house and the Kelveys’ clothes; Coherent; The author does not accept the social prejudices (tone) and uses the irony (figure of speech): “So they were the daughters of a washerwoman and a jailbird. Very nice company for other people’s children!” (p. 64). Style Irony; Simile (comparison): “And she stepped into the yard and shooed them out as if they were chickens.” (p. 67); Foil: Kezia and Isabel; Symbol: the doll’s house and the lamp. Figures of speech The lamp. The doll’s house and the lamp; Pride and prejudice people from many levels of society where the theme of prejudice is infiltrated; external appearances; True and false feellings of friendship and innocence. Theme Reference
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