The Wind Blows
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The Wind Blows is a 1920 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in the Athenaeum on 27 August 1920, and later reprinted in Bliss and Other Stories.[1]
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[edit] Plot summary
Matilda is woken up by the wind; she looks out the window; her mother fetches some flowers from the garden and is called back inside for the telephone. Matilda is off to Mr Bullen's for her music lesson. She then goes for a walk with her brother, and they go onboard a ship, away from the island.
[edit] Characters
- Marie Swainson
- Bogey
- Matilda
- Mr Bullen, a neighbour.
[edit] Major themes
- musicality
[edit] Literary significance
The text is written in the modernist mode, without a set structure, and with many shifts in the narrative.
[edit] References to other works
- Beethoven, Edward Alexander MacDowell and Anton Grigorovitch Rubinstein are mentioned.
- Marie misquotes Percy Shelley's poem The Clouds.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Katherine Mansfield, Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics, explanatory notes
[edit] External links
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