Katherine Mansfield was an outstanding British short story writer. As a freelance writer and reviewer, she achieved great success with some short stories.One of her most famous masterpieces is "A Dill Pickle"...Katherine Mansfield was an outstanding British short story writer. As a freelance writer and reviewer, she achieved great success with some short stories.One of her most famous masterpieces is "A Dill Pickle", on which this article comments. "A Dill Pickle" shows the extent to which romantic love is dependent upon circumstances and the convergence of certain character traits at a particular time. The story artfully and subtlety points up the heroine’ s sensitivity and the man’ s insensitivity to others - their feelings, attitudes and inner motivations.展开更多
文摘Katherine Mansfield was an outstanding British short story writer. As a freelance writer and reviewer, she achieved great success with some short stories.One of her most famous masterpieces is "A Dill Pickle", on which this article comments. "A Dill Pickle" shows the extent to which romantic love is dependent upon circumstances and the convergence of certain character traits at a particular time. The story artfully and subtlety points up the heroine’ s sensitivity and the man’ s insensitivity to others - their feelings, attitudes and inner motivations.