1.) In the story Bliss is about Bertha Young. Her husbands name is Harry and they have a baby together they called Little B. The baby has a nanny named Mary. Bertha  and Harry were having people come over for dinner. Miss Fulton met Bertha at a club where Bertha fell in love with her because she was beautiful and she had something strange about her. She had the Norman Knights a sound couple, and Eddie Warren are publisher. They ate and talked and laughed together. Face and Bertha went to look at her new coffee machine and then out to look at her flowering tree, they admired how it looked like it was reaching to touch the moon. When Face broth Harry his coffee he said “My dear Mrs. Knight, don’t ask me about my baby. I never see her, I shan’t feel the slightest interest in her until she has a lover.” Then they went along with the evening talking about writing plays and poems. Eventually Bertha realizes she really does love her husband and she desires him. It was the first time she felt this way. THEN when the guests are getting ready to leave Bertha gave Eddie his book, and Harry gave Miss Fulton her coat. When the guests followed each other out Harry and Bertha acted like nothing had went on. Bertha ran to the window and admired her beautiful pear tree.

 

2.) I didn’t really like this story because I didn’t like the way Katherine Mansfield wrote the dialogue. It was really confusing because you never knew who said what. The story was boring because nothing happened at the dinner. It was weird how Harry and Bertha acted towards each other, they didn’t act like a married couple.

 

3.) Both stories are focused on how a woman uses a woman used a plant to hide their feelings from people. The object always caught people’s attention, not the way the person was.

 

4.) The 4^th  paragraph of the story has Bertha was ‘blissful’ she was overflowing with emotion.  It says “But in her bosom there was still that bright glowing place- that shower of little sparks coming from it. It was almost unbearable. She hardly dared to look in the cold mirror – but she did look, and it gave her back a woman, radiant, with smiling, trembling lips, with big, dark eyes and an air of listening, waiting for something… divine to happen.. that she knew must happen infallibly.” I think all this symbolizes how she feels and it has irony on how she feels about Henry.

 

5.)The quote “I am too happy-too happy” is ironic because Bertha is not really happy and she means the opposite of what she is saying. This is and example of verbal irony.

 

6.) At the end of the story I interpreted that the tree is what keeps Bertha happy because of its beauty. I don’t think Henry treats her very good. I think they have people over often and there is always some kind of conflict that happens after. Maybe Henry hurts her physically or emotionally. Whenever she says “Oh, what is going to happen now?” this portrays she expects something.

The first one doesn't really have a ephiany.I can't find it if it does. It is supposed to tell a when a person relizes something. I dono't see where it says this.
Yes with this one i totally agree with what you have put. This story was really confusing. I didn't like it at all. Good job with that one.
One the third one i didn;t understand this one. I think there was typo. But i'm not so sure that i agree with that. I was thinking more along the lines of the men. Like when she was in the garden and that man walked by asking all the questions. ANd then when he left she had to shake the this image away. And in the other story the husband like the other girl at the end of the story.
I somewhat disagree with this because it doesn't really say the symbol. But in mine i put that bliss was the symbol. So good job we put a litte of the same thing.
Yes i agree with this one because she wants everyone to think that she is happy. But inside really she is not. She has lots of mixed feelings with her life.
I agree with this one to because she is always talking about the tree and how pretty it is. maybe the reason they have people over all the time is because they don't want to be alone together. And at the end of the story when he tells Miss. Fulton that he cares about her then that is when you can tell that he isn't very nice to her. Good job on this your respones were good.

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