The Wind Blows

The Wind Blows

The Wind Blows is a 1920 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in the "Athenaeum" on 27 August 1920, and later reprinted in "Bliss and Other Stories". [Katherine Mansfield, "Selected Stories", Oxford World's Classics, explanatory notes]

Plot summary

Matilda is woken up by the wind; she looks out the window; her mother fetches some flowers from the garden and is called back inside for the telephone. Matilda is off to Mr Bullen's for her music lesson. She then goes for a walk with her brother, and they go onboard a ship, away from the island.

Characters

*Marie Swainson
*Bogey
*Matilda
*Mr Bullen, a neighbour.

Major themes

*musicality

Literary significance

The text is written in the modernist mode, without a set structure, and with many shifts in the narrative.

References to other works

*Beethoven, Edward Alexander MacDowell and Anton Grigorovitch Rubinstein are mentioned.
*Marie misquotes Percy Shelley's poem "The Clouds".

Footnotes

External links

* [http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/mansfield/bliss/wind.html Full text]


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