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A Dill Pickle Katherine Mansfield Katherine Mansfield A Dill Pickle Retelling: reconstruct the story by chronological order ---- how the hero and the heroine fell in love and then broken up. ----what are the fatal cracks that lead to the falling apart of their relationship. The author ---- stream of consciousness ---- characters’ psychological activities with detailed descriptions and symbolism Questions for thinking Style: writing technique The title ----why is the story titled “A Dill Pickle” ---- how is it relevant to a love story? ---- what might it represent symbolically, if it does? The theme Text analysis Paras1-12 Paras13-25 Paras26-43 Paras44-60 Paras 61-66 Objectives Understand the story: theme character. Appreciate literature: read between the lines; read the story from a particular perspective: feminism; interpret the symbols. 3. Learn to describe a scene or object with accuracy: verbs. Warming up Author Background Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) rebellious, dangerously witty, and lonely creative years burdened with loneliness, illness, jealousy and alienation: bitter depiction of marital and family relationships died of TB—the “romantic disease” Her Life Author Background Her Works In a German Pension?(1911) The Garden Party: and Other Stories?(1922) The Doves’ Nest: and Other Stories?(1923) Bliss: and Other Stories?(1923) Stream of consciousness Characters’ psychological activities with detailed descriptions and symbolism Author Background Her Influence Revolutionized the English short story; Marked the maturity of English short story; Was often compared to Dickens and Chekhov. 1. Women’s condition at the time: Women were advocated to cultivate such qualities as “tenderness of understanding, unworldliness and innocence, domestic affection, and above all, submissiveness in various degrees.” 2. “The Woman Questio