Abstract
Introduction: “I feel that indifference is really foreign to my nature and that to live in a state of it is to live in the only Hell I really appreciate,” wrote Katherine Mansfield in a letter written to Murry in Paris. The indifference is a major theme in “Marriage à la mode”. This short story deals with the question of couple, isolation, egoism, shift, and the difficulty to understand the other. William works all week long in London, and spends weekends with his wife, Isabel, and his children, Paddy and Johnny, in the countryside. William's love for his wife is pure, but Isabel is distant and more and more indifferent to the marital life. She prefers to spend her time with her bohemian friends (some artists, painters and poets), as if she was outside the limits of the real world. William misses the woman Isabel was formerly, and decides to send her a love letter.
