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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
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Miss Brill
Katherine Mansfield's two stories, "Miss Brill" and "Frau Brechenmacher" certainly illustrate the solitary states of both the main characters. For, these women are alone even when they are...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
Mansfield's emphasis on upper class self-indulgence is one of the dominant characteristics in "The Garden Party." The opening paragraph talks about how the weather could not have been better "if...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
An important theme in Mansfield's "The Garden Party" centers on individual identity. One theme in Mansfield's short story concerns the formation of individual identity. Laura displays this theme...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
Katherine Mansfield packs several issues worthy of contemplation into her short story "The Garden Party." The relationship between social classes, peer pressure and social status, standing for...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
One point of contrast between Laura and her family members in "The Garden Party" lies in her level of care and philosophical insight. Laura is different than her family members because she cares...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
One of the main issues "The Garden Party" explores is the differences between the social classes. Laura, the main character, and her family, the Sheridans, represent the upper class. The family of...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
Most readers will find Laura of "The Garden Party" to be a sympathetic character in the first two thirds of the story and may become angry at or disappointed with her in the last third of the...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
The way Laura grows in "The Garden Party" is by experiencing the first paradigm shifts of her life. Rather than changing the way that she sees life by going through a ceremonial "coming of age"...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
Discovery is at the epicenter of "The Garden Party." As a literary work under the genre of bildungsroman, its main purpose is to analyze or follow the development of the main character, including...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
I believe that many students cause themselves problems and even writer's block by trying to come up with a thesis statement before they have written their paper. A thesis statement comes first in a...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
A significant part of Laura's characterization is her love of simple and natural things. The opening line of the story is one that Laura shares and understands: "AND after all the weather was...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
The meaning of this story is very closely intertwined with Mansfield's reasons for writing it. In this story she seems to explore the issue of class and how class consciousness is conveyed and...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
Here on eNotes, there is a study guide for The Garden Party, and it contains several plot summaries, which provide a brief overview of the main events of the story. Here is the link:...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
A similar question was asked previously on the site and can be found at the link below. The answer provides information concerning themes within the story, a brief synopsis, and the overall meaning...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
Mother's idea was for Laura to deliver the left over food to the dead worker's family. Once the party ended, the abundance of food, combined with Laura's earlier insistence that the party be...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
One of the central themes of this incredible story could be described as the move from innocence to experience undergone by the central protagonist, Laura. She starts off as an innocent young lady...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
In "The Garden Party" the theme of "epiphany" is conveyed through the stream-of-consciousness narrative that envelops the entire experience as it is told from the focalized perspective of Laura. A...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
The central hat that it is well worth focusing on is the hat that Laura's mother uses to distract her from her tirade about why the garden party should be cancelled. As Laura comes in to her...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
Laura showed a sign of remorse for the family who lost a father. She believed it would be rude to have a happy go lucky time while their close neighbours were grieving.
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
Katherine Mansfield's coming-of-age story "The Garden Party" focuses on the social and psychological discoveries of a young, well-to-do woman who vicariously experiences through certain events the...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
In order to accurately summarize "The Garden Party" in a way that is as minimalistic as possible, you must take into consideration at least the four most important and sequential actions that help...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
A representative of Kate Mansfield's style, "The Garden" party is a story where self-realization, social differentiation, coming of age, and life discoveries are thematic key elements. Set in the...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
About Mansfield's ending to her short story, critic Warren Walker remarks, "[It]leaves readers with a feeling of dissatisfaction, a vague sense that the story somehow does not realize its...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
Your answer to this question of course depends on which theme you wish to focus on in your response. For me, the central theme is based on the epiphany that Laura experiences at the end of the...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
One of the many potential themes that you could comment on in response to this question is that of class. Essentially, this is a story of a young woman who is made to realise the importance of...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
I think that Moore's quote can connect to Laura on several levels. Consider that Laura represents "the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers." Laura is one of the few members of the Sheridan...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
The theme of the Essay "The Garden Party" is humanism and human hypocrisy as a person dies just opposite the mansion and inside the mansion a party is being organised. when the family comes to know...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
In "The Garden Party," the short story by Katherine Mansfield, the are presented with a stunning contrast: the wealthy, carefree family to which the main character, Laura, belongs, and the...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
how does it intensity the theme of the story?
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
Let us remember that Mansfield writes as an omniscient narrator in this brilliant short story. There is therefore no use of the first person. You are right, however, in indicating that she uses a...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
Katherine Mansfield’s story “The Garden Party” employs a number of different metaphors, including the following: Early in the story, one of the characters is called “the butterfly,” thus...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
I think you could argue that the one of the primary antagonists of the story is the young man who died on the day of the party. It is his death that ultimately has the most profound affect on Laura...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
This story is an excellent example of the short story genre and shows how much an author can pack into a relatively small package. Mansfield uses a very wide array of literary techniques. Here are...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
I would strongly suggest that you begin by taking a look at the themes section of the enotes study guide to this brilliant short story. I have included the link below. This will help you identify...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
Excellent observation. I think you are right about the way in which hats are used to reinforce class distinctions, which is of course such a massive theme in this short story as a whole. However,...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
Katherine Mansfield's fame was more of a gradual build-up rather than an overnight sensation. In 1907 she started publishing stories in Australian magazines. In 1911, now back in London, she...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
To answer this question, you need to relate the garden party in all of its frivolous glory to the death of Mr. Scott and Laura's visit to him at the end of the story. Let us just remember that when...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
Well, let us remember that the key divisive factor if we examine the relationships between the Sheridans is Laura, who, in her youth and her dismissive attitude towards class differences requests...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
A key theme of this excellent short story is that of class, and the way that Laura begins the story at least by trying to ignore class and pretending that it does not impact her. An important part...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
"The Garden Party" by Katherine Mansfield is a wonderful, multi-layered story about a young girl who, after spending a wonderful day at a garden party, travels down the road to visit the home and...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
I think that there are a couple of assumptions that are presented in the question that might need to be fleshed out a bit. The first would be that Laura does not question the Status Quo. I am not...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
This is an interesting question, as it seems to infer that women are given positions of power or at least are able to express their power over others in these three stories. I would argue that the...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
This is a big question relating to four very different short stories, so my answer is going to be necessarily brief. I will point towards general patterns rather than specifics, and this will...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
This becomes one of the fundamental issues in Mansfield's short story. Laura is unable to explain what she considers life to be. To a great extent, this makes sense. Laura has had a moment where...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
You are right in identifying the way that both of these texts include characters or a specific group of people that are oppressed and degrated. Clearly, in "The Garden Party," this group takes the...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
The passage you have quoted reveals Laura to be sweet, happy, light-hearted--perhaps a little frivolous--well-intentioned and in possession of a general good will. Laura speaks of the wind by...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
We need to be very careful when examining the character of Laura and what she might represent in this excellent short story. Certainly, you are right that, at the beginning of the story at least,...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
This is definitely observed in this story. However, I would want to add that it is the upper class that are concerned with frivolous affairs. It is they who have the luxury and the money to be able...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
It seems to me an excellent parallel to the "real world" might be to compare Laura's awakening to some truths around her to those we all experience. Laura realizes her family is rather callous...
