Paper Topic:

Sisters as Opposites

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Hawkins 1 br

Allison Hawkins br

Professor Griffith br

English 101 br

8 Dec 1999 br

Sisters as Opposites br

Families are complex social structures . Despite having the same parents , each sibling develops their own personality and ways of behaving . Sometimes these behaviors are as different as night and day Such is the case in Katherine Mansfield 's short story , The Doll 's House ' In the Burnells ' family , there are three daughters , Isabel Kezia , and Lottie . After a guest leaves , she sends them a perfect perfect

little house (Mansfield 132 ) as a gift it is a doll house All three sisters are excited It was too marvelous it was too much for them . They had never seen anything like it in their lives (Mansfield 132 . They couldn 't wait to tell the others at school

The Burnell children could hardly walk to school fast enough the next morning . They burned to tell everybody , to describe , to-well-to boast about their doll 's house before the school-bell rang (Mansfield 133

However , this is where the similarities end between Isabel and Kezia in regards to the doll house . Whereas Isobel uses the doll house to wield power and exclude others , Kezia uses the doll house to extend kindness and include others

Isabel is the oldest and has that power [ .] Lottie and Kezia knew too well the powers that went with being the eldest (Mansfield 133 This allows Isabel to not only tell the news of the doll house to the girls at school , but also `choose who...

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