A Dill Pickle Critical Analysis

A Dill Pickle Critical Analysis

A Dill Pickle by Katherine Mansfield represents the women's pursuit of independence through loneliness. Mansfield captures real–life stories, not ones fabricated to appeal to the masses. This story takes place in a café, a couple meets again after 6 years apart. Their meeting emphasizes the women (Vera's) cynical look on love and her sensitive personality. The man exudes arrogance and has a way with words. The differences between the two characters highlight the divergence of their love and the lack of certain personality traits of each character. This unveils one of many reasons why their relationship would come to an end breaking both of their hearts. Vera doesn't talk much in the text, instead we dive deep into her inner thoughts and that's where she expresses her true feelings of the past relationship and unravels her teetering feelings for the man, each topic he brings up reminds her of an unpleasant memory of him from the past but as he talks he turns those horrible memories into good ones, convincing Vera to fall back in love with him. "But she was thinking how well she remembered that trick of his–the trick of interrupting her–and of how it used to exasperate her six years ago" (Mansfield, 16). The fact that Mansfield chose to have Vera think "how it used to exasperate her" this shows that it no longer irritated her by the word choice of "used to" the man has convinced her that it no longer is a point of irritation for her but something she now finds endearing.

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