The Fly Katherine Mansfield Analysis

Have you ever lost someone very close to you? Katherine Mansfield, an author from the 1920s, lost her brother, Leslie, in World War l. Instead of going to see a therapist to help her overcome her grief of losing her brother she wrote a story about it. In the short story Mansfield wrote, the boss represents the author because of the struggle the boss goes through with the loss of his son similarly to the struggle she had with the loss of her brother. In the short story, “The Fly”, by Katherine Mansfield although the boss falls into depression and thinks that he cannot get out, but over time he actually accepts the loss of his son with the fly representing the boss’s depression.
The boss falls into deep depression and thinks he cannot get out. In “The Fly”, Mansfield states clearly how the boss is facing the whiskey bottle to make him feel better: “It's beautiful stuff. It wouldn't hurt a child." He took a key off his watch-chain, unlocked a cupboard below his desk, and drew forth a dark, squat bottle. ‘That's the medicine.’" He calls the whiskey the medicine because that is how he is dealing with the loss of his son and it makes him feel better at the time. This shows how he is facing alcohol to help him with his depression. In addition to the boss using whiskey as his ‘medicine’, the author suggests that the boss believes that there is no point in continuing: “Ever since his birth the boss had worked at building up this business for him; it had no other meaning if it was not for the boy. Life itself had come to have no other meaning.” The business was for his son to take over and now that he is
Many people come across hard times at least once in their lifetime and dealing with it is not always the easiest. Would you have written a story or met with a