A Dolls House

A contributing factor to the story "The Doll's House" by Katherine Mansfield is the characterization of Kezia as she travels in her innocence through the symbolic world of experience. Kezia is essential to the plot because she represents a taboo, offering opposition to common ways of thinking. Through the portrayal of Kezia, as she interacts as the symbolic eccentric, Mansfield emphasizes the powers and blind justification of conformity within a society. The story commences with …

…the Kelveys have their visit, they hardly get to take in the full effect of the doll's house before they are shooed "out as if they were chickens." However, they overlook the embellished details of the house and have, like Kezia, a tendency to be drawn to the simplistic lamp. Thus, Kezia and the Kelveys are drawn together in the purity of heart of the light to battle and ignore things based upon blind faith.