The Imprisoned Minds:On The Daughters of the Late Colonel  

作　　者：杨潇鸣 

机构地区：[1]武汉音乐学院

出　　处：《大学英语教学与研究》2019年第4期43-45,共3页College English Teaching & Research

摘　　要：Katherine Mansfield was a representative short-story writer and recognized as a feminist.This paper is a multiangle analysis of her well-known story The Daughters of the Late Colonel.In the episodic story,Katherine depicts two sisters' deplorable life over the course of the week after their father died.This paper starts with the outline of the story,and discusses the narrative order,language features,the title,the opening sentence and the ending of it.It is found that under the seemingly ordinary plots,the two spinsters' incapability,timidity and loss of identity are presented.Thus,the essence of the story is revealed:the female characters are under strong patricentric control and their minds are actually imprisoned.And the portrayals of the sisters' captivity in the sense of spirit imply that Katherine's potential appeal of female spiritual emancipation.Katherine Mansfield was a representative short-story writer and recognized as a feminist. This paper is a multi-angle analysis of her well-known story The Daughters of the Late Colonel. In the episodic story, Katherine depicts two sisters’ deplorable life over the course of the week after their father died. This paper starts with the outline of the story, and discusses the narrative order, language features, the title, the opening sentence and the ending of it. It is found that under the seemingly ordinary plots, the two spinsters’ incapability, timidity and loss of identity are presented. Thus, the essence of the story is revealed:the female characters are under strong patricentric control and their minds are actually imprisoned. And the portrayals of the sisters’ captivity in the sense of spirit imply that Katherine’s potential appeal of female spiritual emancipation.

关 键 词：imprisoned MINDS Katherine MANSFIELD The Daughters of the LATE Colonel 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]