Katherine Mansfield A Cup of Tea Essay

I re all toldy like A Cup of Tea a lot. It, among opposite things, does a brilliant craft of depicting matrimonial jealousy and insecurity. Our lead character is a very wealthy young woman, rosemary, seemingly recently married. Her time is largely taken up with facial expression for government agencys to spend money. As the story opens she has skilful bought a small box in an exquisite shop, the cost is most six months pay for an ordinary working man of the time rosemary has been reading Dostoevsky lately and when she is approached by a very bedraggled looking young woman intercommunicate for the price of a cup of afternoon tea she is at first put off but then she decides to crap a bit of an adventure. She invites the girl to come home with her.The girl is so hungry she overcomes her fear at talking with someone so out-of-the-way(prenominal) above her station in life and agrees to go with rosemary. So rosemary takes her home feeling a triumph as she nets a critical captiv e. Its evident that rosemary is just playing with a devour like a cat does.Now, I got you. Rosemary is longing to be generous and is going to prove that as Mansfield writes wonderful things do notice in life, in the life of the upper consort, to which Rosemary is a beauteous example, and it seems that the only things she cares about are her feelings and amusement. After they arrive at the stick out the action starts in Rosemarys bedroom.Mansfield is trying to underline Rosemarys status the fire leaping on her wonderful embellish furniture, gold cushions all these things dazed the poor girl. Rosemary on her part was very relaxed and pleased she lit a prat instead of taking proper care of Miss Smith. By the way her name is not even mentioned yet, like its of no brilliance at all. We can find the girl on the brink of the mental despair. Rosemary cant face the reality the poor as it is Rosemary Fell sees everything in rose-coloured spectacles, through the filter of the upper cl ass society.And it looks if not pathetic then quite sad. But after the providential meal our creature transforms into something undeniably attractive frail creature, a material body of sweet languor. And for Rosemary its high time to begin. Instead of asking her name or other decent question Rosemarys firstly was interested in her meal, it is quite impolite. The Philip enters, smiling his charming grinning and asks his wife to come in to the library. He requires explanations from his wife, learning that the girl is as Rosemary says a real pick up that Rosemary cute to be nice to her. Philip guesses what is all about shows his remonstrance against the idea it plain cant be done. And then he uses his heavy gunslinger calls miss Smith so astonishingly pretty.He knows it will do some harm to his wife. These words immediately heat jealousy in Rosemarys veins up. Pretty? Do you think back that? and she could attention blushing. Shes absolutely lovely Rosemary looses her temper. S he recollects his words over and over. And all leads to the phrase Miss Smith wont dine with us tonight. Rosemary is eager to retain her husbands attention. Rosemary seems to be so distant from poverty but on the other hand she doesnt consider anything really valuable, like a root cellar to lead such glorious life in this world no taste, no wish to see the world in the raw, sometimes no manners, and perhaps even no prettiness.Thats why she is trying to have things and do things which would help to retain the status like knowing more than about the poor and having beautiful things to be associated with. To put in a nutshell the story is reach in different stylistic devices and I think conveys a distinct and valuable message. The story, A Cup of Tea tells us how people show sympathy to people whom they consider their inferior. People do so partly to show off their superiority to the poorer beings. Generosity in most cases is only to satisfy ones egotism. The story shows how gener osity and benevolence evaporates when the object of pity goes against ones self interest, ego and vanity.