The Doll’s House

by

Katherine Mansfield

Lottie Burnell Character Analysis

The middle Burnell daughter and sister to Isabel and Kezia. When Isabel instructs Lottie and Kezia to let her tell the other girls about the doll’s house first, she does not resist, but understands, along with Kezia, “the powers that went with being the eldest.” Lottie follows what her older sister does. When guests come to visit at the end of the story, for example, Lottie goes to change into a fresh pinafore with Isabel, though Kezia does not.

Lottie Burnell Quotes in The Doll’s House

The The Doll’s House quotes below are all either spoken by Lottie Burnell or refer to Lottie Burnell. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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The Doll’s House Quotes

For, really, the smell of paint coming from that doll's house…was quite enough to make any one seriously ill, in Aunt Beryl's opinion. Even before the sacking was taken off. And when it was….

There stood the doll’s house, a dark, oily, spinach green, picked out with bright yellow. Its two solid little chimneys, glued on to the roof, were painted red and white, and the door, gleaming with yellow varnish, was like a little slab of toffee. Four windows, real windows, were divided into panes by a broad streak of green. There was actually a tiny porch, too, painted yellow, with big lumps of congealed paint hanging along the edge.

But perfect, perfect little house! Who could possibly mind the smell? It was part of the joy, part of the newness.

Related Characters: Kezia Burnell, Isabel Burnell , Aunt Beryl, Lottie Burnell
Related Symbols: The Doll’s House
Page Number: 314
Explanation and Analysis:

For the fact was, the school the Burnell children went to was not at all the kind of place their parents would have chosen if there had been any choice. But there was none. It was the only school for miles. And the consequence was all the children in the neighborhood, the Judge’s little girls, the doctor’s daughters, the storekeeper’s children, the milkman’s, were forced to mix together.

Related Characters: Kezia Burnell, Isabel Burnell , Lil Kelvey, Else Kelvey, Lottie Burnell
Page Number: 316
Explanation and Analysis:

But the line had to be drawn somewhere. It was drawn at the Kelveys. Many of the children, including the Burnells, were not allowed even to speak to them…the Kelveys were shunned by everybody.

Related Characters: Kezia Burnell, Isabel Burnell , Lil Kelvey, Else Kelvey, Lottie Burnell
Page Number: 316
Explanation and Analysis:
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Lottie Burnell Quotes in The Doll’s House

The The Doll’s House quotes below are all either spoken by Lottie Burnell or refer to Lottie Burnell. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Insiders, Outsiders, and Class Theme Icon
).
The Doll’s House Quotes

For, really, the smell of paint coming from that doll's house…was quite enough to make any one seriously ill, in Aunt Beryl's opinion. Even before the sacking was taken off. And when it was….

There stood the doll’s house, a dark, oily, spinach green, picked out with bright yellow. Its two solid little chimneys, glued on to the roof, were painted red and white, and the door, gleaming with yellow varnish, was like a little slab of toffee. Four windows, real windows, were divided into panes by a broad streak of green. There was actually a tiny porch, too, painted yellow, with big lumps of congealed paint hanging along the edge.

But perfect, perfect little house! Who could possibly mind the smell? It was part of the joy, part of the newness.

Related Characters: Kezia Burnell, Isabel Burnell , Aunt Beryl, Lottie Burnell
Related Symbols: The Doll’s House
Page Number: 314
Explanation and Analysis:

For the fact was, the school the Burnell children went to was not at all the kind of place their parents would have chosen if there had been any choice. But there was none. It was the only school for miles. And the consequence was all the children in the neighborhood, the Judge’s little girls, the doctor’s daughters, the storekeeper’s children, the milkman’s, were forced to mix together.

Related Characters: Kezia Burnell, Isabel Burnell , Lil Kelvey, Else Kelvey, Lottie Burnell
Page Number: 316
Explanation and Analysis:

But the line had to be drawn somewhere. It was drawn at the Kelveys. Many of the children, including the Burnells, were not allowed even to speak to them…the Kelveys were shunned by everybody.

Related Characters: Kezia Burnell, Isabel Burnell , Lil Kelvey, Else Kelvey, Lottie Burnell
Page Number: 316
Explanation and Analysis: