Katherine Mansfield's Bliss

Catherine Mansfield's "Happiness" Catherine Mansfield's short story bliss is full of many potential meanings and themes. Mansfield also uses a lot of symbols, of which the pear tree is an important symbol. In this article, I prove that a pear tree is a symbol of Bertha and his life, and also the awakening of her sexual desire. First, I will explain its symbolic meaning as pear and tree are described in symbolic books, and then focus on the pear tree related to Ber-tha through the story.

A psychological story and free indirect discourse is a way to present the character's feelings to the reader. In this section, we analyze the stories "happiness" and "veil" of Katherine Mansfield and find linguistic features that show the emotional participation of the character. Mansfield uses psychological stories and free indirect discourse in "happiness" and "opening veil". In the analysis of the text, the words underlined indicate the features of the hero and fragments of the idioms of the character. Several references to Mansfield 's short stories are integrated into the analysis to make the background easier to discuss. "Happiness" is the story of wealthy young couple, Berta and Harry, and their social life. In "Happiness", the psychological story explains the happiness reserved for Bertha, her relationship with her husband, and her emotions to her friends. A paragraph containing a psychological story usually begins with an explanation of a non-personal story

As a writer, Katherine Mansfield is particularly interested in exploring women's identity and sexual behavior. Many of her female characters - blessed Berta Young, Ada Moss in the picture, and Miss Brill in the short story with this name - showed a genuinely identity crisis. Indeed, in many cases, it can be said that women's characters in Mansfield have fragmentary identities, they show that they are trying to integrate internal and external self into the narrowness of male-dominated society. Like other Modernist writers, Mansfield focuses on the character's internal life, not the outside world.