The Illustrious Client: Kitty Winter

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Canon Story: The Illustrious Client
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: If ever you saw flame and ice face to face, it was those two women.



Kitty Winter:
In her heart an ice splinter.
Though her rage is aflame,
She can’t melt away the shame.

Comments

[winryweiss.livejournal.com]

Kitty is such an interesting character. Shame she didn't get more space.

I really like those allusions to ice through this clerihew.

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

Thans for this moving verse, which so well uses Kitty's name.

[vaysh]

Clearly, ACD did not give Kitty that name by coincidence, no matter all his fiery descriptions of her. You clerihew brought out wonderfully why.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

That choice of surname is highly suggestive in context - and ACD does describe Miss Winter initially as: "a slim, flame-like young woman with a pale, intense face." (My italics.) You immediately have that contrast. And though her anger and frustration come through, I can't help but feel that at her core she's cold and dispassionate, in order to protect herself.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much ^^

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

It would be interesting to retell ILLU from the POV of Holmes, or even of Kitty herself. Watson never really knows fully what's going on and, apart from the ending, most of it is happening "offstage" for him.

There's that interesting contrast between Miss Winter and Miss de Merville: Kitty is full of heated rage but also full of cold "sin and sorrow"; Violet is apparently passionately in love but is so cool and aloof.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Kitty deserves the acknowledgement of her feelings.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Yes, indeed. Poor woman.