English | Summary | Unit Six:
Life and Death
The Gardener | Rudyard Kipling
Characters: Helen Turrell,
Michael Turrell, the Gardener, Mrs. Searsworth and George Turrell
“The Gardener” is a beautifully written story. Kipling
contempts/despises the so-called civilized society for its shallowness of
feeling, dead habits and lack of respect for the individual emotions and
feelings. The story presents the fact that an individual is caught between two
fires: world of emotion and the world of social rules or norms and values. If
he engrossed in things pleasant to the senses and sensuality, they may lead him
to doom.