The Fly, Katherine Mansfield

The Fly, Katherine Mansfield

1. narrative situation: heterodiegetic, no first person narrator

   • Transition from authorial to figural narrative

2. remembering and forgetting the dead

   • rather concentrate on Fly

3. repressed guilt

4. ink drops

   • displaced mourning for boys => tears

5. killing of fly

   • responsibility of fathers
   • blotting out memory
   • "killing" feelings of father

6. the fly

   • represents son?

7. Boss

   • circumstances of war?
   • society?
   • the enemy?
   • plays god?

8. impact of WW1 on collective psyche