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When you're sick, what does your mother do for you?
Millie
Character Changes
Katherine Mansfield
Short Summary
Millie is a woman living with her Husband Sid.
Sid and Willie are trying to catch Mr. Williamson's Murderer; Harrison
Harrison stumbles into Millie's yard and she finds him
Harrison is cared for by Millie through her pity
He stays in the yard for the day until the men come back
He then runs; but is chased by Willie and Sid spurred on by Millie
Millie's Two Sides
Maternal and Motherly
Millie Cares for Harrison as if he's her child
She feeds him food
She wishes his Protection and Survival
She Empathizes with his pain
his eyes were so full of pain and terror that she had to shut her teeth and clench her hand to stop from crying.
pg.26
a strange dreadful feeling gripped Millie Evans' bosom- some seed that had never flourished there, unfolded and struck deep roots and burst into a painful leaf....
pg.26
Millie's Two Sides
Millie has no Children
Visions a life with Children
Every since her wedding with Sid
pg. 25
I wunner why we never had no kids...
Righteous and Just
When She finds Harrison and his boyish features
Her Motherly instincts take over
When Millie is left Alone she sits in her Room
Millie knows what is Right and Wrong
Feeling a sense of loneliness and reminisced of better days
She wants Justice for Mr. Williamson's Death
she didn't know what was the matter with herself that afternoon. She could have had a good cry- just for nothing...
pg.24
She wants her Husband and Willie to succeed in Justice
and at the sight of Harrison in the distance, and the three men out after, a strange mad joy smothered everything else...
pg.28
Millie knows that Murder is wrong
She wants Mr. Williamson's Death to be Justified
with the death of Harrison
'A-ah! Arter 'im, Sid! A-a-a-a-h! ketch 'im, Willie. Go for it! A-ah, Sid! Shoot 'im down. Shoot 'im!
pg.28
Why?
Millie lives with Willie and Sid
cont'd
Millie also is influenced by these men's ideas.
Millie is portrayed as an emotional woman
She could support violence because she spends time with more violent men rather than women
She could be easily be turned by strong emotions
quite suddenly Millie felt frightened. A queer trembling started inside her...
As Sid said, if he wasn't strung up where would they all be? A man like that doesn't stop at one go.
pg.25
she didn't know what was the matter with herself that afternoon. She could have had a good cry- just for nothing...
pg. 24
pg.24
She's surrounded by their opinions
a strange mad joy smothered everything else
pg. 28
Conclusion
Millie spent her time changing based off her emotions
She was easily swayed by ideas put in her head
and by emotions of things she yearned for
Bibliography
Not her own
Us as People are swayed to believe things because
of our emotions
When emotions are strengthened by yearnings
we can believe anything
http://www.kathleenjones.co.uk/kmwebsite/writing/magstories/millie.htm
Emotions are a powerful tool for good and bad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millie_(short_story)
http://rereadinglives.blogspot.ca/2010/09/millie-by-katherine-mansfield-reading.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Mansfield
if you hadn't any one to talk things over with, they soon dropped out of your mind.
pg.25
She no other Woman to Talk with or vent emotions