Life Of Ma Parker
by Katherine MansfieldGenre: Drama
Setting: New Zealand
Format of Original Source: Short Story
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Candidate for Adaptation? Not Reviewed
EXCERPT:
When the literary gentleman, whose flat old Ma Parker cleaned every Tuesday, opened the door to her that morning, he asked after her grandson. Ma Parker stood on the doormat inside the dark little hall, and she stretched out her hand to help her gentleman shut the door before she replied. “We buried ‘im yesterday, sir,” she said quietly.
“Oh, dear me! I’m sorry to hear that,” said the literary gentleman in a shocked tone. He was in the middle of his breakfast. He wore a very shabby dressing-gown and carried a crumpled newspaper in one hand. But he felt awkward. He could hardly go back to the warm sitting-room without saying something–something more. Then because these people set such store by funerals he said kindly, “I hope the funeral went off all right.”
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