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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
"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
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
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
This excellent short story by Katherine Mansfield focuses on the thoughts and feelings of Laura Sheridan and the way that we see her develop during the action of the plot. Clearly, Mansfield...
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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
Conflicts in the story are both internal and external. Once conflict concerns Laura and her family ("man against man"). She wants to learn life from their point of view; she wants to be...
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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
This is a great question! It seems to me that the song that Jose sings actually foreshadows the events that occur later in the story, in particular the death of Mr. Scott and the confrontation that...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
In "The Garden Party" by Katherine Mansfield, Laura is a daughter of wealth and aristocracy. On this special day, the day her family was having an elaborate garden party, a working man who lived...
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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
The setting of "The Garden Party" begins at Laura's home and shifts to the neighborhood and home of the dead man's widow. When the story opens in medias res (or res in medias), Laura is making...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
He was given up to his dream. What did garden-parties and baskets and lace frocks matter to him? He was far from all those things. He was wonderful, beautiful. While they were laughing and while...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
Laura's first reaction when she hears about the death of Mr. Scott is that the party must be cancelled. She is so shocked by the news, and shown to be rather innocent and naive, and thus she feels...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
As an avowed modernist, Mansfield provides the reader with an insight into the subjective opinions and emotions of her characters. She does this through the deployment of a third-person limited...
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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
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
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
This part of the story comes when Laura takes a basketful of food to the Scott family as a token of sympathy for the death of Mr. Scott, who died in an accident that morning. As she goes in to see...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
“The Garden Party” is a short story by Katherine Mansfield, first published in 1922. It follows the main protagonist Laura, who helps her mother with the organisation of a garden party. One of the...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
The third-person-limited point of view immediately establishes the irony because of the distance between information and subject matter.The narrator withholds information in favor of limiting what...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
Laura, from her youthful innocent perspective, feels that it would be inappropriate to have a party in light of the fact that a young man who live just down the hill from their home has died. She...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
A narrative climax can be an action-packed dramatic event, a quietly decisive event, a heightened emotional event, or a subtle psychological event. In addition, in short stories, the climax is...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
While we can certainly be sure that Laura loves all her family members--we do love our families regardless of their faults and actions--it is obvious that she is closer to her brother, Laurie, than...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
"The Garden Party" by Katherine Mansfield is a short story in which class distinction plays a large role. Laura is part of a rich, aristocratic family. When we meet them, all but Laura are...
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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
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 comparing...
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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
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
Innocence vs experience is a common theme in literature. They are on opposite sides of the spectrum and as we move through life we begin to lose our innocence as we gain more experience. To some,...
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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
At the end of the tale, we are left with a sense of the inadequacy of words to describe a transcendent experience. Laura has just experienced a radically different world from her own world of...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
Laura starts the story having a positive interaction with workmen setting up her family's garden party. This convinces her that there are no class differences and that the classes can all get along...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
Laura Sheridan wants to cancel the garden party her family is giving that day when she hears about the death of the workman who lived nearby. Her mother talks her out of it by offering her a...
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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
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
This is a good question, unfortunately, there is not one clue in the text to tell us what Mrs. Sheridan was actually thinking. However, based upon what we do know of Mrs. Sheridan's attitude toward...
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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
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
Laura may be considered a difficult character for two reasons. The first is that she is young and impressionable and doesn't yet have her own mind fully under her own control. The second is that...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
Writing thesis statements is hard. I remember turning in several papers in high school with teacher comments like "your thesis is weak" or "you don't have a thesis." It was never fun. That is...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
Money has an implicit role in "The Garden Party," being a silent character that guides, governs and motivates the physical characters' words, thoughts and actions. It is money after all that...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
Her reaction is quite understandable considering the profile of the character. Laura is very young, sensitive by nature, and has always lived in a protective world. The neighbour's accident at work...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
Check the link below for help with your answer. You may also want to visit the study guide to this story with regard to characters.Good Luck!
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
You are not allowed to ask multiple questions according to enotes regulations, so I have edited your original question accordingly to focus on the resolution of this impressive short story. Let us...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
Laura is presented very differently from her older and more experienced sister Jose. At the start of the story, Laura considers class distinctions to be "asburd" and says that they do not matter to...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
As with many works of modernist literature, "The Garden Party" has a fairly straightforward plot. And yet, beneath the simple surface, there is a lot more going on. This itself is one of the key...
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The Garden Party: And Other Stories
Analysing symbolism takes a little work and a little digging. First, the definition of a symbolic word, object, statement or concept is that it is one that stands for itself (e.g., a rose is a...
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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
In "The Garden Party," Mansfield's preoccupation with social class becomes a catalyst for exploring the idea of an ambiguous self. She focuses on Laura, a young woman whose self-conception changes...
