Comparing Death in D.H. Lawrence’s The Horse Dealer’s Daughter and Kath

Comparing Death in D.H. Lawrences The Horse Dealers Daughter and Katherine Mansfields The Garden PartyControlling the movements of the short stories, end is a regnant theme in D.H. Lawrences The Horse Dealers Daughter and Katherine Mansfields The Garden Party. Death brings forth consciousness and it excites the fate for an epiphany within the protagonists. To a lesser extent, death creates tremors in the worlds of the antagonists. Death furthermore makes the indifferences of the secondary characters more pronounced. Affecting the lives of the protagonists, the antagonists, and the secondary characters of these two short stories, death plays an intact role in the themes of these works. Lawrences The Horse Dealers Daughter was originally called The Miracle, marking the protagonists rebirth of love out of death. Mabel, the cardinal year old spinster, is revived physically and weirdly after her submergence in the dead cold pond (2337). For a decade, Mabel played housekeepe r for her ineffectual br opposites and although she was not happy, the sense of moneykept her proud, confident(2334). After the death of Mabels father, the familys horse-dealing business collapses and Mabel becomes mindless and persistent, enduring from day to day (2335). Distant from her brothers and receiving no visitors other than dealers and coarse men (2334), Mabel concludes that her life is like a barren field. Even though Mabel reassures herself that she would always hold the keys of her own situation (2335), she has already died a spiritual death a death that is mirrored by the imageries of the desolate house and the sloping, dank, winter-dark fields (2334). Mabel does not have any hopes for ... ... resonates throughout both short stories and it spurs the growths of the protagonists and antagonists, characters who rival new heights of understanding about themselves and others. These characters are also able to resolve the peace with death, the purgative process that tra nsforms them. The secondary characters in these two stories are unfazed by death, thus uncovering their insensitivity towards the loss of others. Albeit tragic in many ways, The Horse Dealers Daughter and The Garden Party interrupt glimmers of hope and humanity in the shadow of death.Works CitedLawrence, D.H. The Horse Dealers Daughter. 1922. Norton Anthology of face Literature. 7th ed. 2 vols. New York Norton, 2000, 2 2330-2341.Mansfield, Katherine. The Garden Party. 1921, 1922. Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. 2 vols. New York Norton, 2000, 2 2423-2433.