Daughters of the late colonel
In The Daughters of the Late Colonel we are faced with two old maids who are prisoners within their old homes, within themselves. It is a story of two daughters struggling to accept a new form of freedom after the death of their father. ... At the beginning of the story, the reader feels the remorse of the daughters, Constantia and Josephine. ... Neither of the daughters is able to admit that they are free to do what they please. ... The constricted life of the sisters within The Daughters of the Late Colonel exhibit the type of housed fear that Mansfield could have experienced to break out of the house. ... The Daughters of the Late Colonel exemplifies the writing style that Mansfield achieved, using "precision of style and imagery and a symbolic patterning of incident [that] would project insights into certain kinds of experience.