Millie (short story)
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Millie is a 1913 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in the Blue Review in June 1913.[1]
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[edit] Plot introduction
Mr Williamson has been murdered, supposedly by an English handyman.
[edit] Plot summary
Millie is alone in her house, as her husband and the other men have gone to find Harrison, an English handyman who has supposedly killed Mr Williamson. After looking at her wedding pictures in Mount Cook, she hears a noise coming from the garden and finds a wounded man lying there. She offers him food and realises it is Harrison; she decides to feed him anyway when she sees how beleaguered he comes across.
The men later come home and they hear a noise outside. It is Harrison riding a horse. Immediately, they decide to chase him, and Millie gets carried away and cheers them on.
[edit] Characters
- Millie Evans, the main character. She has poor grammar.
- Willie Cox
- Sid, Millie's husband.
- Mr Williamson, a joyful fellow, recently murdered.
- Mrs Williamson, Mr Williamson's wife.
- Harrison, the English johnny who has supposedly killed Mr Williamson
[edit] Literary significance
The text is written in the modernist mode, without a set structure, and with many shifts in the narrative.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Katherine Mansfield, Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics, explanatory notes
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