Sun and Moon

Sun and Moon

Sun and Moon is a 1920 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in the "Athenaeum" on 1 October 1920, and later reprinted in "Bliss and Other Stories". [Katherine Mansfield, "Selected Stories", Oxford World's Classics, explanatory notes]

Plot summary

The children, Sun and Moon, are hanging around the house while a party is being prepared. They play games, then are sent off to bed. The party wakes them up; their parents find them out of their beds and instead of scolding them, they let them go downstairs for a bite - but Sun starts sobbing because Moon has eaten the nut from the centerpiece (the moment of ruined perfection, a recurring theme in Mansfield's work), and they are sent off to bed again.

Characters

*Sun
*Moon
*Nurse
*Annie
*Mother
*Father
*the pianist
*Minnie, the new cook.
*Nellie, the housemaid.

Major themes

*the gap between children and adults

Literary significance

The text is written in the modernist mode, without a set structure, and with many shifts in the narrative.

Footnotes

External links

* [http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/mansfield/bliss/sun.html Full text]


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