Implicit Meaning in Fiction: The Problem of Interpretation (based on K. Mansfield's Short Story "The Lady's Maid")
The paper considers the specificity of the interpretation of implicit meanings in the short story by Catherine Mansfield “The Lady's Maid”. The decoding of the non-verbalized content of this particular literary work is associated not only with the figurative meaning of words, symbolic imagery or a specific compositional structure of the text, but is also determined by the reader's life experience.