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    Literature of Australia and New Zealand

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    The document summarizes information about two short story authors - Christina Stead from Australia and Katherine Mansfield from New Zealand. It provides biographical details about each author, including the years they lived and some of their major published works. It then summarizes one short story by each author - Day of Wrath by Stead and Bliss by Mansfield. For each story, it outlines some of the main characters, settings, themes and provides a brief plot summary.

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    The document summarizes information about two short story authors - Christina Stead from Australia and Katherine Mansfield from New Zealand. It provides biographical details about each author, including the years they lived and some of their major published works. It then summarizes one short story by each author - Day of Wrath by Stead and Bliss by Mansfield. For each story, it outlines some of the main characters, settings, themes and provides a brief plot summary.

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    World Literature: Lesson 12 Literature of Australia and New Zealand

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    Literature of Australia and New

    Zealand
    Day of Wrath: The Schoolboy’s
    Tale
    By:
    Christina Stead
    (Australia)
    CHRISTINA STEAD
    • Was born on July 17, 1920
    in Rockdale, Sydney,
    Australia.
    • Was a novelist and a
    feminist writer known for
    her political insights and
    firmly controlled but highly
    individual style.
    • Among her published works
    are: The Salzburg Tales
    (1934), Seven Poor men of
    Sydney (1934), and The
    Man Who Loved Children
    (1940).
    About the Story
    Summary
    • Characters: • Setting:
    • The Schoolboy/Narrator • In Avallon, a watershed
    • Viola village in a seaport.
    • Viola’s Brother
    • Viola’s Mother
    • Society
    • Themes:
    • Judgement of the
    society
    • Discrimination against
    women
    • Morality
    • People in power always
    get what they want
    Katherine Mansfield
    • Was born Kathleen
    Mansfield Beauchamo on
    October 14, 1888, in New
    Zealand;
    • Educated at Queen’s College
    in London;
    • Among her published
    stories: Bliss (1920), The
    Garden Party (1920), The
    Dove’s Nest (1923), and
    Something Childish (1923);
    • died in 1923 because of
    tuberculosis at the age of
    34.
    About the story
    Summary
    • A man and a woman who used to be romantically involved meet by chance in a
    tea-house not having seen each other for about six years. The woman ended their
    earlier relationship in a letter she wrote to him. They sit together and reminisce
    about past events – just like the day they spent at Kew Gardens together. Both
    initially seem to regret not being friends any longer. The man tells her about his
    many journeys abroad, insisting that he has accomplished alone the things they
    had said they would do together. He tells her about Russia and how different the
    society is there. Despite his originally being perhaps poorer and her being better-
    off, now the man seems to be prosperous, while the woman has perhaps fared less
    well, having had, for example, to give up her piano. The man's manners, however,
    still partly reflect his poorer origins. Just like how the man unwittingly risks
    offending the woman by recalling that she had few friends. He also talks
    repeatedly about money and what things cost. He claims that when they were
    together he loved her more than she him. The reader, however, can see that the
    woman remains attracted to him, and the man appears uncommitted; finally, the
    man dismisses their earlier selves as immature, mentioning how he had studied
    the mind while he was in Russia. Here he is unable to complete his sentence
    because his companion suddenly leaves. He recovers quickly from this surprise,
    though, asking the waitress not to charge him for the cream which had not been
    used.
    Characters and Setting
    • Vera- the female • At the Kew Gardens
    protagonist, a
    somewhat passive
    woman
    • Vera's former love - the
    male protagonist, who
    remains unnamed, a
    self-centered and
    insensitive man
    • Themes: • Symbolisms:
     lost love  A Dill Pickle – represents their spicy
    - inability to feel or express love yet sour relationship.

     self-centeredness  Buttoning and unbuttoning of Vera’s


    – Rather than attending to Vera, the collar – represents how she vacillates
    male protagonist talks mostly about between opening and closing herself
    his own life and the journeys he has up to him.
    made.
    –  Glove –represents the guilt, love, and
     control hopes.
    – The male protagonist seems to
    have a history of acting in a
    controlling manner, steering the
    conversation.
    At one point, he puts his finger on
    her lips and interrupts her while she
    is talking.
    MORAL AND REALIZATIONS
    References
    • The New Age. Volume 21, number august 13
    2014 Retrieved on August 13, 2014.
    • Katherine Mansfield, Selected Stories, Oxford
    World's Classics, explanatory notes
    • https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/3b25/be
    ll-james-abbott-mackintosh

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