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Sun and Moon
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"Sun and Moon is a 1920 short story by Katherine Mans- • , the new cook.
field. It was first published in the Athenaeum on 1 October • , the housemaid.
1920, and later reprinted in Bliss and Other Stories.[1]
Major themes
Plot summary • The gap between children and adults
The children, Sun and Moon, are hanging around the
house while a party is being prepared. They play games,
then are sent off to bed. The party wakes them up; their
Literary significance
parents find them out of their beds and instead of scold- The text is written in the modernist mode, without a set
ing them, they let them go downstairs for a bite - but Sun structure, and with many shifts in the narrative.
starts sobbing because Moon has eaten the nut from the
centerpiece (the moment of ruined perfection, a recur-
ring theme in Mansfield’s work), and they are sent off to
Footnotes
bed again. [1] Katherine Mansfield, Selected Stories, Oxford
World’s Classics, explanatory notes
Characters
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Categories:
• Modernist texts
• 1920 short stories
• Short stories by Katherine Mansfield
• Works originally published in Athenaeum (magazine)
• Story stubs
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