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"The Canary" is a 1923 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in The Nation & the Anthenaeum on 21 April 1923, and later appeared in The Dove's Nest and Other Stories.[1]
[edit] Plot introduction
A lonely woman tells of her dead canary, how he was the only thing she loved, 'perfect company'.
[edit] Characters in "The Canary"
- a lonely woman
- a dead canary
- a Chinese man who sold her the canary
- three younger men whom she cooks dinner for
[edit] Major themes
- loneliness, intermingled with the theme of the housewife perhaps
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Katherine Mansfield, Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics, explanatory notes
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