lot of description, not much action

sort of painting

horses New Zeland

3 riders who stop for the night and leave the next morning

sheep breading

main action = the encounter desert

Katherine Mansfield sexual intercourse

use of stream of consciousness

general passivity of the characters

most famous writer of short stories in England

reason of the encounter

there is a secret

middle of nowhere heavy storm

action

the outbreak of the storm

wildeness filthy

then the storm

the place derelict

the general movement is a rising one

dying place

the wind

degenerate

thunder

piece of folklore

certainly a general store during the dinner

the climax

3 flashes of lightning

125 ways of kissing

first attractive relief

but now ugly

lost her teeth

The woman we don't know her name

rapport assez animal mysterious

The woman at the store

subversion of the man/woman relationship

she has a secret

Sexuality the situation is abnormal

gap of information

Joe takes the place of the husband

the husband

he would have gone without his sheep dog

the man has gone sheep-shearing burried in the paddock

hypothèse he has a sheep dog Joe has sheep eyes

She doesn't want to go

Sheep visions of hell raving mad

The girl is said to bleet

nightmarish scenes

The child

She is drawing baah lambs and mow cows

a brat degenerate

childish, peaceful description

Joe

the child get back to a little kid one of the three riders SOMETHING HAS HAPPENED If the narator is told by the child that the husband has been killed by the mother, she would'nt leave her brother behind

Jim

The end The narrator

narrator surprising ending

" I don't let the paddock anymore"

Joe's sister female because " I saw HER..."