Although the tile of the article is Clay, there is no appearance of the word Clay in the article, we could still realize what Maria has touched is clay, and it differs James Joyce from other mediocre writers.

What is brilliant and talented for James Joyce's writing is instead of directly pointing out how old Maris is, he hided a lot of hints in the writing to reflect this point that reader has to read and interpret carefully to get all of these evidence.

what's the thing she got? Considering the title of the story, it might be clay, which links to death and bury.

Such a great comparison of her words and behavior!

Ha, an authentic portrayal of the city from author's mind.

It's weird to see that she still uses Mooney as her family name as they have already divorced. Also, using Mrs. to refer a female often imply certain degree of looking down upon female.

Perhaps shows that Eveline is unsure about the future instead of being unswerving

Although I here is referred to the protagonist, I could also infer the mindset of James Joyce due to his Irish identity.

He dedicated his life to working towards the establishment of an independent Irish Republic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_O%27Donovan_Rossa

Jame Joyce was great at building all kinds of comparisons. Previously, the protagonist is eager to look for someone with green eyes, but now he doesn't dare to look at the green eyes, reflecting his state of mind and achieving the principle of "show, but not tell".

I found that many times the story expands toward the unexpected direction from common people's imagination. The prediction we made based on his previous description often misleads us how plot will move forward.

Is Joe Dillon his brother?

It seems similar to the Garden Party as In medias res that we first encounter personal pronoun without knowing whom he refers to and whose story is unknown.

The title of this story makes me wonder who is the protagonist of this story, or who is the person James Joyce aims to depict the most. Although the whole story is narrated from "my" point of perspective about Old Cotter's story, and the title "THE SISTERS" seems to point us toward the direction that Eliza and Nannie are two major persons James Joyce want to focus on instead.

Rosicrucian, member of a worldwide brotherhood claiming to possess esoteric wisdom handed down from ancient times. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Rosicrucians

I think in the beginning the sentence is that "Harold hadn’t come back from lunch until close on four." Does that mean Harold came to office around four and then left soon, or does it suggest old Mr. Neave is too "tired" for remembering things clearly as if in dream?

Learning new names for flowers everyday

Again, just like what happened at the end of the Marriage à la Mode we read yesterday, there's a change of mind for the main character in whether doing something or not.

In American English, forever is written as one word. In British English, you may see the forever written as two words: 'for ever'. Therefore, it could be a good way for computer to determine the author's origin or the contexts of the story setting.

What does using "the new" to describe a person mean?

There's a change of perspective from William to Isabel in the story.

French word for my friend

Here we encounter the theme garden again and it brings me to think what's in common for all stories in this book? Why are they group together?

Mansfield uses the word chap a lot to refer to male boys, showing personal choice of word which is different from Colins.

The second time she changes her mind after refusing the order while Hennie partakes to take some. It seems that she tries to act like others instead of behaving what she truly would like to.

She also disdainfully told her mother to "shut up". Her attitude is very different from her mother's timid and claptrap attitude with her, also forming a strong contrast with her angelic appearance.

Mrs. Raddick talks about her daughter by using she instead something like "my daughter", which is weird and makes us not entirely sure whether she is talking about her daughter at all and gave us a sense of distancing and strain between this pair of mother and daughter

What's Allive veet? I cannot find a good explanation of what it is.

It surprises me she welcomes people smoking around, forming a strong contradiction with her negative attitude toward gambling.

It turns out that what mother says is not trustworthy at all.

I am lacking of words to describe the behavior of mother, careless and mindless seem to be not enough considering her behavior toward her own daughter.

That's so discriminatory

An evidence for class divider.

It seems that those men don't follow Laura's instructions and made their own decisions.

slap in the eye (idiomatic adverbial) — exactly, squarely, directly, precisely, straight to the point bang (n., Am. slang) — impact, thrill (the biggest bang for the buck) https://www.quora.com/What-does-give-a-bang-slap-in-the-eye-mean-in-these-context-You-want-to-put-it-somewhere-where-itll-give-you-a-bang-slap-in-the-eye-Laura-s-upbringing-it-was-quite-respectful-for-a-workman-to-talk-to-her-of-bangs

Their memory of father turns out to be the memory of fear instead of memory of good things.

On the one hand, it shows Constantia has a caring personality; and on the other hand, can this sympathy for mouse foreshadowing her own situation that draws a parallel?

Is Josephine truly missed his dead? In addition to her actions in the previous paragraphs that "she nearly giggles" when discussing her father's funeral, the author seems to suggest Josephine don't feel too much loss from her father's death

lower case for vessel jug and upper case Jug for Josephine. This can be a deliberate intention made by author.

Rather intriguing to see her faith in Buddhism in the western world at that time, when Buddha would for sure be regarded as a faith of colonial world / Ceylon.

In the novel, there are a lot of different clothes people wear for different occasions, and this could be used to study their class and social status.

It turns out that Kate is the cook of the house, making me surprise a lot, as in the previous part she is referred as "the enchanted princess" that makes me assume Kate is a person with higher social status.

Although the writing is quite short, reader can easily sense the different characteristics between Josephine and Constantia because of a lot of comparisons.

By reading different novels of earlier periods, it turns out that to-morrow is the word people used in "old world" while tomorrow is a more modern term.

According to the Wikipeida, "by the 1790s, the directoire style dress coat with top hat was widely introduced as citywear for the upper and middle classes in all urban areas of the Western world." And apparently, porter is a working class and can be viewed as lower class, so again here class dynamics is a theme in Mansfield's novel. Edited: During the 19th century, the top hat developed from a fashion into a symbol of urban respectability, and this was assured when Prince Albert started wearing them in 1850. bibliography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_hat

It seems that author uses ... not as omit something unfinished but as a jump to another scene across the space, to the location where Benny stays at.

It's interesting to see Constantia is been named Miss Constantia while Josephine is been called Miss Pinner instead of Miss Josephine

different spelling of the word “bitter”

Con for Constantia.

Buttah refers to butter? Improper or local language?

Ceylon is the English name for Sri Lanka in the early days. Curious to know why they read Ceylon mail at this point of the reading, maybe this story encompasses the colonization issue?

First, the week after what? Who's they (their lives)? Reader encounter the middle of story first which really triggers readers' attention and curiosity. Secondly, we find the unfinished sentences like those in the Garden Party, showing that it is either author's personal style or the genre of that generation, a classic example of literary modernism, which differs from the Victorian novel.

Since the murderers didn't move the pillow to remove any physical evidence related to murder, this shows that the Indians are not experienced criminals to make some attempts to prevent themselves from being suspected or caught by authorities.

If Rachel doesn't come to see this entire thing and came to the house in the morning, it will be hard to get a sense what has actually happened in the room. I can't imagine how they can worked with him to figure out every details. Franklin wouldn't have remembered for sure.

Is it also a way to start the year by an ending apostrophe?

This rate is unbelievably high, but Godfrey couldn't do anything about it. Mr. Luker used this secret of the Moonstone's whereabouts to almost blackmail Godfrey, asking for 1.5x what he lent after one year.

This "this" word is interesting, as the first letter is capitalized while the rest three letters are italicized.

Form these lines of question, reader will feel a sense of eagerness to know everything about Franklin in haste.

This dose is much higher than what he suspected Mr. Candy has given to Mr. Blake, and it really makes me concerned about his ability to continue conducting the experiment with a clear mind when he itself seems to be an addict.

I knew the book has been placed high in Betteredge's mind, but I still don't get why and how this importance come from.

This will be an issue for NLP as if we remove punctuation, em will be a word which should actually been classified into the then group.

If Mr. Franklin cannot remember the number of guests clearly, how can reader trust his long, seemingly-intact and detailed narration?

Mr. Franklin is definitively not a good communicator in understanding how other people feel and think since he is egocentric and every decision he made is from his own standpoints. He is not ashamed and don't feel guilty at all to explain anything more after Rachel witnessed him stealing the diamond and he cannot give a sufficient evidence to show himself is innocent.

Mr. Franklin is ego-centric as it is he made mistake and was responsible for the missing of the Moonstone, though we still don't know why and how he did it. He acts like he made no mistakes at all and I think it reflects the contemporaneous male dominance.

I felt insulted if I were Rachel as Mr. Franklin acted pretentiously and I was disgusted by his hypocritical excuse for this absurd behavior.

This reflects the western centric points of view in viewing people from Asia as savage and barbaric.

Before now, I am speculating it is he stole the diamond, but if he stolen the diamond, he should have enough money and it remains unexplained.

Mr. Godfrey is lying and hypocritical if we can trust Miss Clack's narration of the scene in Montagu Square

What he regards of the marriage with Rachel is all about reputation and wealth instead of loving Rachel from his heart.

That's so ironic as she in fact is sanctimonious

what does this refer to?

Look crazy and inane to me and entering private space without permission is intolerable in my point of view. Miss Clack seems to use religion as the excuse to do immoral acts.

We can look at this question from a feminism perspective, which shows that in the 19th century, the gender status is not the same as certain occupation with respects can only be done by male, no matter how great a women she is.

This shows solicitor's confidence in Miss Verinder, but also reflects a controversy for us to think about: will you ignore something / easily deceived by someone if he is familiar to you? Or, can you know better the characteristic of oneself?

This paragraph makes Mr. Godfrey seem to be a gracious and honorable man who cares Rachel a lot.

Miss Rachel becomes hysteric and it seems that she knows what happened clearly but for some reason she can't present the truth to the public and intends to hide it from everyone. What a big change! I can't wait to find the truth.

Miss Clack has high remark for Mr. Godfrey.

Miss Clack puts himself low based on what we have read so far until this point.

Does this suggest Miss Clack's personal bias toward Miss Verinder?

This phrase means death but in a roundabout way which is fairly clever. However, this also adds some difficulty to the text analysis as machine cannot detect the meaning of this phrase and categorizing with the word such as death together.

This is my first time seeing people from SouthEast Asian being referred to Oriental, which is surprising as I encountered the word before when it refers to East Asians.

Different narrators with distinct occupation speaks in different tone. We can clearly sense the difference among Betteredgee, Miss Clack, and Mr. Bruff. Mr. Bruff, as a layer, speaks logically.

To be honest, I think Sergeant's analysis is quite convincing and it seems that it's not true. What we believe is true in fact being fallible means we have overlooked something and this is exactly why detective novel fascinates me.

I think this is also interesting to investigate on as sometimes the same person refers to other differently. For example, Sergeant called Mr. Franklin as Mr. Franklin Blake and Mr. Blake as well. Moreover, this is an issue that we have to keep in mind when we do textual analysis. If we only look at the number of times Mr. Franklin appears in the text, we actually make some mistakes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Rose_of_Summer Not sure whether it is relevant or not but there is a poem with the same name that was wrote by a Irish poem in 1805

From so many evidence that Miss Rachel acts abnormally because of Mr. Franklin, though Mr. Franklin doesn't know why and he might not be intentional.

I am coming back to comment after reading enough to know that nightgown is not for her own but Mr. Franklin. I wonder why here instead of hiding thoughts, he made a rather arbitrary conclusion that eventually proves that he was wrong? And it leads me to reflect why he is so confident about no one has stolen the diamond, as he cannot figured about a segment of the whole case - what has Rosanna did.

Again I am so confused that why the word they and we are in italics, as well as the appearance of Italics of some words that don't mean something special to me. How about others? What do you think?

It seems that Mr. Franklin is suspicious as well since he tries to do something secret without letting the Sergeant to know.

Betteredge's narrative portrays Cuff as an annoying figure that intentionally to do something with bad intention, in additional to the use of word "devilish cunning" in the previous paragraph. It seems to me that Betteredge intends to emphasize on certian things Cuff did and mixed some of his own subjective feeling (for example, the word devilish, to make us as a reader become hatred to the Sergeant himself.

Is commanding other to help with moral constraint a good idea? What will 19th Century people think about it?

I finds fascinating that both Betteredge and Miss Clark mentioned Adam and related Bible story in their narratives. As a foreign student, I am not sure whether this is unique or a common pattern for the English novel, if anyone knows, please respond!

From the mentioning of Evening Hymm, it seems that Miss Clark is pious to religion.

I think the second period offers a series of different narratives by people and helps us make our own judgements of what has happened. We will not be restrained from following Betteredge's mind to unpack the whole story, but instead, we will be able to pinpoint many of Betteredge's factual and narrational inconsistencies and paradoxes introduced in the previous chapters by analyzing the alternate perspectives from others.

The word "boudoir" appears several times in the book. This word means "a woman's dressing room, bedroom, or private sitting room" by Merriam-Webster dictionary. The frequent usage of this word by author and sometimes with the addition of quotation marks make author think that this word has its own importance and Betteredge want to stress certain meaning on it.

Why author here want to use the Italics form of have instead of regular font? I found this similar pattern appearing several times based on what we have read so far and I also put this in my hw1 as something interesting to investigate about.

I think that this is a typical statement of witness in a detective story. Betteredge wrote down a witness statement in which it is unclear what has actually happened, as what's Rosanna Sperman was going to do that afternoon and why she wear a thick veil, but the mystery and uncertainty makes the plot more intriguing!

Does savage in a sense related to the Robison Cursoe that he lived like a savage creatures on a desolated island?

Why they and them are in italics form?

I do find this a little odd and possibly out of character - Betteredge seems so dedicated to his lady and his job, that I'd imagine him taking more care over the state of what he dresses.

I found this seemingly paradox fascinating that in the previous chapter, he says that "Although I attach no sort of credit to the fantastic Indian legend of the gem, I must acknowledge, before I conclude, that I am influenced by a certain superstition of my own in this matter. It is my conviction, or my delusion, no matter which, that crime brings its own fatality with it. I am not only persuaded of Herncastle’s guilt; I am even fanciful enough to believe that he will live to regret it, if he keeps the Diamond; and that others will live to regret taking it from him, if he gives the Diamond away." And here he says he is not superstitious of any sort which make me reflect the authenticity of his narration that might influence the story developing.

Maybe it's because I am not familiar with English literature, but instead of simply using the words such as descendant, the author use "all of his house and name who received it after him" that is different from our daily speech pattern and it could be a characteristic of the 19th century novel or author's unique personal style. It might be a interesting topic to explore for NLP.