A Cup of Tea by Katherine Mansfield - 2970 Words

A Cup of Tea By Katherine Mansfield Rosemary Fell was not exactly beautiful. No, you couldn t have called her beautiful. Pretty? Well, if you took her to pieces... But why be so cruel as to take anyone to pieces? She was young, brilliant, extremely modem, exquisitely well dressed, amazingly well read in the newest of the new books, and her parties were the most delicious mixture of the really important people and... artists - quaint creatures, discoveries of hers, some of them too terrifying for words, but others quite presentable and amusing. Rosemary had been married two years. She had a duck of a boy. No, not Peter - Michael. And her husband absolutely adored her. They were rich, really rich, not just comfortably well off, which is†¦show more content†¦She was outside on the step, gazing at the winter afternoon. Rain was falling, and with the rain it seemed the dark came too, spinning down like ashes. There was a cold bitter taste in the air, and the new-lighted lamps looked sad. Sad were the lights in the houses opposite. Dimly they burned as if regretting something. And people hurried by, hidden under their hateful umbrellas. Rosemary felt a strange pang. She pressed her muff against her breast; she wished she had the little box, too, to cling to. Of course the car was there. She d only to cross the pavement. But still she waited. There are moments, horrible moments in life, when one emerges from shelter and looks out, and it s awful. One oughtn t to give way to them. One ought to go home and have an extra-special tea. But at the very instant of thinking that, a young girl, thin, dark, shadowy - where had she come from? - was standing at Rosemary s elbow and a voice like a sigh, almost like a sob, breathed: Madam, may I speak to you a moment? Speak to me? Rosemary turned. She saw a little battered creature with enormous eyes, someone quite young, no older than herself, who clutched at her coat-collar with reddened hands, and shivered as though she had just come out of the water. M-madam, stammered the voice. Would you let me have the price of a cup of tea? A cup of tea? There was something simple, sincere in that voice; it wasn t in the least the voice of a beggar.Show MoreRelatedAnalysis of â€Å"A Cup of Tea† by Katherine Mansfield820 Words   |  4 PagesAnalysis of â€Å"A Cup of Tea†by Katherine Mansfield K.Vasiliev A Cup of Tea by Katherine Mansfield (1888 to 1923-New Zealand) is included in the 1923 collection of her work, The Doves Nest and Other Stories edited by Mansfields husband, John Middleton Murry.      There is a very moving introduction to this collection in which Murry lets us know details about the next ten stories his wife was going to write.    There is a temptation in reading Mansfield to see her work as artisticallyRead MoreA Cup of Tea by Katherine Mansfield: Creates a Contrast Between the Bland Ordinariness of a Cup of Tea4272 Words   |  18 Pages1 2 A CUP OF TEA BY KATHERINE MANSFIELD 3 4 5 Comment [LS1]: The title is linked to the central incident in the story and also acts as a linking device between Rosemary and Miss Smith. 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