Katherine Mansfield "Her First Ball"
...functional system of marriage is emphasised in the phrase, 'and your heart will ache, ache'. In comparison to Austen, we feel much more stability with the style of Pride and Prejudice. Mansfield's short stories in themselves are more like moral tales, and require a much more contemplative approach. There is much more comfort in the novel form, where we feel recognition, structure and ultimately a predictable ending-much like the lives of women. Mansfield presents realism, but also explores the faults and subconscious consequences in secular life. Just as ??.says: 'It is a familiar world in which all of us can freely move and breathe?like poetry, it surprises and delights us by producing something unexpected.' Pride and Prejudice opposes this style through its stable structure and overt language techniques. She u...