The Daughters of the Late Colonel
by Katherine Mansfield

The Daughters of the Late Colonel: Style 1 key example

Key Examples in The Daughters of the Late Colonel

Style
Explanation and Analysis:

The style of "The Daughters of the Late Colonel" is typical of Katherine Mansfield, in that the writing is psychologically dense and that all of its figurative language works to reflect the characters' inner thoughts and feelings about the story’s events. The complexity of the syntax throughout the narrative mirrors the uncertainty that the Pinner sisters Josephine and Constantia feel in the wake of their tyrannical father's death. This syntactical complexity makes the reader feel the guilt and confusion that Jug and Con have to work through as they begin to understand their mixed feelings of grief and relief.