The Little Girl & Rain on the Roof

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Katherine Mansfield is the author of 'The Little Girl'. She was a New Zealand-born writer known for her modernist short stories.

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Kezia initially feared her father. To her, he was 'a figure to be feared and avoided'. She felt relieved when he left for work and was terrified when he came home.

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Kezia stuttered only with her father because she was so nervous and afraid of him. She tried very hard to say the words properly, which made her more anxious. With other people, she didn't stutter at …

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Kezia made a pin-cushion from yellow silk for her father's birthday. She stitched three sides laboriously with double cotton and filled it with what she thought were scraps of paper.

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The 'hue and cry' was because Father's important speech papers for the Port Authority had gone missing. Kezia had unknowingly torn them up to stuff her pin-cushion, thinking they were just scraps.

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Father beat Kezia's palms with a ruler. Despite her explanation that the pin-cushion was meant as a birthday gift for him, he punished her for touching things that didn't belong to her.

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After being comforted by her grandmother, Kezia sobbed and asked, 'What did God make fathers for?' This shows her confusion and pain about her relationship with her father.

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The Macdonalds had a loving, playful father who played games with his children, carried them on his shoulders, and laughed with them. This made Kezia realize 'there were different sorts of fathers.'…