[1] The wind, the wind. ... [10] The wind-the wind! ... [12] Hasn’t anyone written poems to the wind? ...
In “The Wind Blows”, Katherine Mansfield exposes the emotional turmoil of adolescence, with its moodiness, fear, confusion, sexual awakening, rebellion, and nervous energy. The story opens with a sense of dread and dismay brought about by the metaphor of the wind’s blowing Matilda’s happy childhood away and leaving her standing on the brink of womanhood. ... Throughout the story, Matilda is referred to in the third person, but in this paragraph, Mansfield uses the stream-of-consciousness style to express directly the shifting moods, thoughts and perceptions of Matilda. ... By alternating long and short sentences, Mansfield establishes a sense of the imbalance and confusion that results from rapid change. ... Again the wind intrudes upon her thoughts, and her mood shifts to the romantic, [sentence 12 and 13]. ... Language is simple and childlike, with monosyllabic words, hard consonants, “wind”, and action words that move the thought process along quickly, “gleam’, “going to darn”. Monosyllabic words, sentence fragments, and repetition of “The wind, the wind. ... Echoing the phrase “the wind”, highlights the import and absolute power of it. In the second instance, with the hyphen and exclamation point, the wind seems to be even more demanding of her attention, and indicates Matilda’s growing exasperation with its relentlessness.
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