Read the following passage from Katherine Mansfield's "The Daughters of the Late Colonel":
She went over to where Josephine was standing. She wanted to
say something to Josephine, something frightfully important,
about-about the future and what.
"Don't you think perhaps," she began.
But Josephine interrupted her. "I was wondering if now," she
murmured. They stopped; they waited for each other.
"Go on, Con," said Josephine.
"No, no, Jug, after you," said Constantia.
"No, say what you were going to say. You began," said Josephine.
"I. I'd rather hear what you were going to say first," said
Constantia.
What feminist message does the author develop in this passage? How does she use
stylistic and rhetorical devices such as characterization, point of view, and dialogue
in order to develop that message? Support your ideas with specific evidence from
the text.