A Cup of Tea

Question

by Katherine Mansfield

Rosemary Fell was not exactly beautiful. No, you couldn’t have called her beautiful. Pretty? Well, if you took her to pieces. . . . But why be so cruel as to take anyone to pieces? She was young, brilliant, extremely modern, exquisitely well dressed, amazingly well read in the newest of the new books, and her parties were the most delicious mixture of the really important people and. . . artists—quaint creatures, discoveries of hers, some of them too terrifying for words, but others quite presentable and amusing.

Rosemary had been married two years. She had a duck of a boy. No, not Peter—Michael. And her husband absolutely adored her. They were rich, really rich, not just comfortably well off, which is odious and stuffy and sounds like one’s grandparents. But if Rosemary wanted to shop she would go to Paris as you and I would go to Bond Street. If she wanted to buy flowers, the car pulled up at that perfect shop in Regent Street, and Rosemary inside the shop just gazed in her dazzled, rather exotic way, and said: “I want those and those and those. Give me four bunches of those. And that jar of roses. Yes, I’ll have all the roses in the jar. No, no lilac. I hate lilac. It’s got no shape.” The attendant bowed and put the lilac out of sight, as though this was only too true; lilac was dreadfully shapeless. “Give me those stumpy little tulips. Those red and white ones.” And she was followed to the car by a thin shopgirl staggering under an immense white paper armful that looked like a baby in long clothes. . . .

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Question
Use the story “A Cup of Tea” by Katherine Mansfield to answer the question.

Drag each item to the correct location to connect the character with the motivation.

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Character Motivation
Rosemary
The shop attendant
Miss Smith
Philip

Answer 1

To connect each character from "A Cup of Tea" by Katherine Mansfield with their motivations, you can use the following pairings:

Character: Rosemary
Motivation: To showcase her wealth and modernity, and to indulge in luxury.

Character: The shop attendant
Motivation: To provide the service and fulfill Rosemary's extravagant requests.

Character: Miss Smith
Motivation: To seek kindness and financial help, contrasting Rosemary's privilege.

Character: Philip
Motivation: To appeal to Rosemary's emotions and perhaps to express his admiration for her.

Drag these responses to the appropriate locations to match each character with their motivation.