In, "The Daughters of the Late Colonel," Josephine and Constantia are only known because of their father's name and his military status (Smith 1). The title of the story itself, even distinguishes the girls to the reader (Goonetilleke 1). Their names are not mentioned in the title, defining them as only the daughter's of the late colonel, this is the first way Katherine Mansfield dep

Bertha's lack of knowledge and blindness to the real world is obvious upon her discovery of her husband's relationship with Pearl Fulton, whom she adores. She falls in love with Pearl and the strange aura she presents. Bertha is determined that Pearl and she are on the same emotional roller coaster and waits for a sign from Pearl to let her know that she is. Instead of the friendship that she is hoping to one day receive from Pearl she is embraced with the relationship that Pearl and her husband share. With her hopes of evoking a change in her life, based on the feeling of shared emotion; what her life lacks, she goes back to a profound loneliness (Korb 3). Instead of standing up for herself to her husband for having an affair, Bertha accepts the fact and only wonders what is going to happen now (Neaman 2). This invertebrate move makes Bertha personality even weaker and leaving her without the chance of her being happy but all because of the moves that she makes.

where Little B is being fed her unstable emotions overcome her, leaving her reckless with her child. She is not able to establish a mature relationship with her husband either and is left clinging and begging for communication, when she cannot even properly communicate back on the same level, notable in her telephone conversation. "'Oh, is that you Ber? Look here. I'll be late. I'll take a taxi and come along as quickly as I can, but get dinner put back by ten minutes-will you? All right?'" She then replies with, "'Yes, perfectly. Oh, Harry!'" He asks, "'Yes?'"(340). He questions her but she does not reply, she has nothing to say, "she only wanted to get in touch with him for a moment" (340).

Miss Brill steadily watches the people as they walk by and a woman wearing an ermine toque catches her eye. The ermine toque is shabby and old, bought when the woman was younger. Now the woman's hair, face and eyes have all faded and are as white as the faded fur (2). Mansfield depersonalizes this woman by not giving her a name at all and just describing her as the, ''ermine toque.'' Mansfield describes this woman by her outdated ermine toque almost in the same way as she describes Miss Brill and her fur: their accessories are making them who they are. Mansfield's portrayal of both women is the same; old and not well informed. Their fur connects them, they have both outgrown their possessions and one of their weaknesses is shown when neither of the women is able to notice it. As the woman in the ermine toque is snubbed by the man, a foreshadowing of what is to happen to Miss Brill later in the story occurs. The woman tried to engage the man in conversation, and Miss Brill will later try to engage with the world (2). Both women are still trying to live in the days when both of their treasures were still fashionable. It is not until the young boy and girl run across Miss Brill that she realizes what her life has become.

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