Mansfield's aim in "Prelude" and "At the Bay" was to recreate the life she knew as a child in New Zealand.
Each story consists of a series of episodes presented sequentially. Characters are not so much introduced or described as discovered within scenes; the reader learns about them and their lives from direct observation. T. O. Beachcroft points out that in this method there is no narrator. Mansfield allows "no comment from any implied narrator"; she makes "the scene and.....
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