Characteristic Text Analysis: a cup of tea

摘要

From a scanning of the short story " A CUP OF TEA" by Katherine Mansfield, the protagonist of the passage is she: Rosemary Fell. A clear example of an upper middleclass lady living an extrordinary pleasant life among smart people, beautiful flowers and qntique and precious object. Study the story by using characteristic and textual methods, I will try to criticise the text objectively in relation to its functional features.%凯瑟琳·曼斯菲尔德的短篇小说的主角--罗斯玛丽·菲尔--是一个生活在上层社会的典型人物.她交际于上层聪明人中,身边伴着鲜花和奢侈物品,过着极其安逸的生活.本文将用文体和文本语言学的方法,来客观剖析该故事中人物的性格特点.