A Lost Love
In the short story “A Dill Pickle” the author Katherine Mansfield tells the story of a couple who meets again after six years. After this interval, a man and a woman who used to be lovers meet unintentionally in a café. They recall about days gone by - the day they spent at the Kew Gardens together. He tells her about Russia and how class-free the society is. At the café, the man indirectly insults her for still being alone. He tells her about his wonderful journeys and that he has accomplished the things they had said they would have done when they were together. The man continues talking, this time about how he studied the mind while he was in Russia and is unable to complete his sentence because he takes notice to his companion walking out on him. When it's time to pay he asks the waiter not to charge him for the cream since it was untouched. This story reveals how time does not change people. It doesn’t matter the experiences that people have been through or their status improvement, people’s manners will always reflect who they really are.
In addition, the character in the story that mirrors this idea is the man. At first sight, the woman was surprised how he had changed. She saw another man in hi m. “He was certainly far better looking now than he had been then. He had lost all that dreamy vagueness and indecisions. Now he had the air of a man who has found his place in life, and fills it with a confidence and an assurance which was, to say the least, impressive. He must have made money, too” (750-751). She was surprised to see him in those conditions. That is the reason why she insisted in making eye contact, even if he ignored her the first time. It did not take too long for her to realize that he may had changed superficially, but he was the same self-absorbed egoist, that she dated 6 years before. “She was thinking how well she remembered