The lamp in Katherine Mansfield's "The Doll's House" and the monkey in Liliana Heker's "The Stolen Party" illuminate the common theme by showing children in the middle of learning a harsh reality about the world they live in. The young main characters, Kezia Burnell in "The Doll's House", and Rosaura in "The Stolen Party", live in a society where classism is common. They are both naïve though, to the fact that classism exists and that people are seriously affected by it. The lamp and the monkey are symbols that symbolize how the young main characters of each story deal with the classism around them, and in Rosaura's case, how she is treated because of the classism.
The lamp in "The Doll's House" symbolizes how Kezia sees things that are simple and how she is usually ignored by the rest of her upper class society. The lamp is the most simplistic item in the doll house, and Kezia considers it as her favorite detail of the dollhouse. Her older sisters and peers though, are fonder......
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