Wednesday, 18 February 2015

London gardens The Sketch (Tales with a twist ) June 17 1925



First impressions: Beatrix does tend to write a lot of her short stories in the first person and they all seem so true to life that you can’t help wondering when reading them, is this really fiction or is this more of a journal? They seem so realistic that you feel they must be at least partially based in reality. Her style for this story, was the same as the “true” story that she wrote of her Christmas in Germany, first person narrative in an amusing and descriptive tone.  The “I” in this story seems the same “I” as in that one.

I’m also surprised she had a cat again! I guess as a young woman she was fond of cats, as well as dogs. (Though of course it might be fiction).

The story turned melancholy with a woman who had been abandoned and whose children had died. The narrator listened to the story and felt sorry for the woman. This was an interesting mix of Bea’s humour and depression.

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