Littérature

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ZAVALNYOUK Yuriy TL2

Tuesday, 23rd of November

Comment on “Lappin and Lappinova” pt. III

Lappin and Lapinova is one of the short stories presented in the collection of short stories, A Haunted House. Here, the reader meets with Rosalind, a young woman who is just married. The female protagonist of the story, Rosalind, has difficulties adjusting to her role as the new wife of Ernest Thorburn, and therefore constructs an alternative fantasy world where Ernest is a rabbit king called Lappin and she – Queen Lapinova. Throughout this novel, we can see Rosalind as a character full of doubts, and psychical problems which were caused by that marriage. In this analysis we will try to understand, how Rosalind's fancy world put an end to her marriage. We will proceed first of all by summing up some important details from this part. Than, we will see how Rosalind's going crazy. And finally, we will observe the collapse of this mariage.

The first part of this extract is filled up with a temporal shift to a winter’s night two years after the day of the golden-wedding party. We shall remind, that this party was an awful experience to Rosalind. In fact, she felt herself inferior to the other guests and had almost lost her fantasy world which provoked in her a deep discomfort and dissatisfaction. After Ernest has come home from the office, Rosalind starts to recount her own day’s activities within what is clearly the ‘rabbit’ adventures : “I was crossing the stream when”. And just before we can see that the weather is foggy (“it was cold and with fog in the air”) which also put us in the mystery. Ernest interrupts her with the question ‘What stream?’ and reacts to her description of the location of the stream with the words: ‘What the deuce are you talking about?’. His reaction is full of contempt and Rosalind is distressed; but eventually manages to involve him in the fantasy once again. However, it's not as easy as always. In fact, Ernest took “five minutes”

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