Sun and Moon (Mansfield)

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"Sun and Moon" is a 1920 short story by Katherine Mansfield. [1] [2] It was first published in the Athenaeum on 1 October 1920, and later reprinted in Bliss and Other Stories . [3]

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Plot summary

The children, Sun and Moon, are hanging around the house while a party is being prepared. They play games, then are sent off to bed. The party wakes them up; their parents find them out of their beds and instead of scolding them, they let them go downstairs for a bite - but Sun starts sobbing because Moon has eaten the nut from the centerpiece (the moment of ruined perfection, a recurring theme in Mansfield's work), and they are sent off to bed again.

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Literary significance

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

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Andresen, Marlene (2020-10-20), "Seeking Blissful Ignorance: Katherine Mansfield's Child Protagonists in 'Prelude' and 'Sun and Moon'", Katherine Mansfield and Bliss and Other Stories, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 91–104, doi:10.1515/9781474477321-010, ISBN   978-1-4744-7732-1 , retrieved 2025-01-31
  2. ↑ Schrage-Früh, Michaela (2017-12-01). "Blurring the Boundaries: Dreaming Children in Katherine Mansfield's "Sun and Moon" and Daphne du Maurier's "The Pool"". Journal of the Short Story in English. Les Cahiers de la nouvelle (69): 15–36. ISSN   0294-0442.
  3. ↑ Katherine Mansfield, Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics, explanatory notes


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