Daughters Of The Late Colonel-Katherine Mansfield

In The Daughters Of The Late Colonel we meet two sisters of an uncertain age, in the week after the death of their father. It is possible to estimate their ages at around the early fifties, because they have a grown-up nephew. This is the story of two lives which have been distorted by a tyrannical father. It is not only a story of the lost opportunities in the lives of two women, in the …

…their father, the women are now free to begin a new life, but it is too late. They attempt to form some thoughts and words into some kind of future plan, but they are finally unable to articulate the words and the thoughts they wish to express.... Perhaps it would be too dangerous for them to say these words. Without their father, they are probably even more dependent on one another than before his death.