| AbstractM ManSfield (1888-l923) is a woman writer who enjoyS therePuwhon of "a nder of short stOries". She was bom in WellingtOn, NewZealand on OctOberl4,l888, frOm a rich bolyIn 1908, When she was l9 years old, young Mansfield left New Zealand andtraVelled alone to England to make her name as a writeL In l9ll MansfleldPublished her first collection of short stories In a German Pension, WhichbrPgh her W PFegh- Pmpde cmpe oqt in l9l3, mph was a apghfOr both Mansfield and the short story in English. Mansfield's collection of Blissand Other StOries aPPeared in l920, Which included Prelude and was acclaiInedby her contemPorary wriers and critics. The Garden Party and Other StOrics(l922) was the last book Mansfield put tO Prin in her life tiIne, which eqestablished her faIn as a leadng writer of modem English Short stories.Mansfield had suffered from tuberculosis since l9l8. She died atFontainleau, France, on JanW 9,l923. Aner her death, her husbandJ.M.MUrry assembIed her unPublished stOries and compiled them into tWOcollections, Dove S Nest and SOmething Childish, Which came to Iigh in l923and l924 resPectively. In l927, her JOurnal was published, Which was alsopopular at tha tiIne.The most colothe and best short Stories of Mansfield's are New Zealandstories. She has SPecial ability of observation, with Which she unflds a beautifulPictUre of New Zealand's cuSbos, peOPe tal their life in a SUble descrighon.ThUS if her characters are to take on depth, it is usually in the New Zealand Stories,W the sam people are met again and again. The reader's intiInacy withStanley Bumll, Keda, Beryl. and even the aloof Linda increases unul it is as ifMansfield had written the novel she hOPed fOr when she began Wor on Prelude.Mansfield is so gOod at shOwing her own life experience and feelings tbrOughher characters of the stories. Relenlessly, she reveals the hyPocrisy andSUPefficiality of the ndddle class and the Privileged people, teases bittery theabsurdity in their life. She wries the tmhappiness and sunlessness of women's lifeas her writing themes. The characters in her stories are qulte different frOm eachother in thoughts. They are suffering their ndsfortUn helPlessly and desperatelyThey even don't know the reasons Why their life is so unhaPPy In her stOries,Mansfield enters the inner worid of her charaCers and exPresses their feelings andthOughs, frOm which we can see the ugliness of the distorted socicty and thecruIty of the human natUIe, her love and hahed as a honSt wher, her SymPathyfor the sthehag and her PrOtest against the social injwtice. At the same tiIne,many characters in her Stories are real and round, on Whom readers have imPresseddeePlyllMansfield抯 best and most characteristic works are generally considered to be contained in Bliss, and Other Stories and The Garden Party, and Other Stories. These volumes collect many of Mansfield抯 highly regarded New Zealand Stories as well as the widely reprinted and often discussed Bliss, The Daughters of the Late Colonel and Miss BrilI, which are considered among the finest short stories in the English language. These stories display some of Mansfield抯 most successful innovations with narrative technique. Her indirect-free narrative mode unique in her time, her ingenious technique of the time-scheme, her skillful multipersonal viewpoint, her interior monologue and prose-poetic language distinguish her from her contemporary writers.It is said that the short story is not the medium for full character development, but Mansfield does well in perceiving this limit of the form. As a short story writer, Mansfield thinks that the task of a writer is not only to tell stories, or to illuminate the ideal characters, but to present the slice of life in truth. Because the real life is not always remarkable, on the contrary, is so simple and common. A writer should create a kind of real and appealing atmosphere with natural description. The reason why some of the ch...
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