| 词条 | The Stranger (Mansfield short story) |
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Plot summaryIn Auckland, Mr Hammond is waiting for his wife, back from Europe. After talking to some other people waiting at the harbour, she lands in but takes her time, leading him to wonder if she was sick during the voyage - she was not. In the hotel, Hammond says they will spend the next day sightseeing in Auckland, before going back to Napier, where they live. She then appears distant, and eventually reveals that she took a while to leave the ship because a man had died on board, and she was alone with him when that happened. The husband is put off. Characters
Their daughter.
Back from Europe.
The harbour master.
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Literary significanceThe text is written in the modernist mode, without a set structure, and with many shifts in the narrative. Footnotes1. ^Katherine Mansfield, Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics, explanatory notes External links
4 : Modernist short stories|1921 short stories|Short stories by Katherine Mansfield|Works originally published in the London Mercury |
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