Dec 18, 2009

The Garden Party | Style

Style
Katherine Mansfield's short story "The Garden Party" employs a style that is distinctly modern in its use of impressionistic detail and stream-of-consciousness narrative method. These stylistic features also characterize the works of Virginia Woolf Dorothy Richardson, and other innovative writers of the 1920s and 1930s.

The narrative begins in "the middle of things"—in media res. The narrative voice describes the scene in a casual and immediate manner which at once establishes an...