The Canary (short story)
"The Canary" is a 1923 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in The Nation and Atheneum on 21 April 1923, and later appeared in The Dove's Nest and Other Stories. It happened to be the last story she wrote before she died of tuberculosis.[1]
Plot introduction
A lonely woman tells of her dead canary, how he was the only thing she loved, 'perfect company'.
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
Major themes
- loneliness, intermingled with the theme of the housewife perhaps
- sadness in life
- ^ Katherine Mansfield, Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics, explanatory notes
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