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Her First Ball
“Her First Ball” by Katherine Mansfield is a short story that highlights the feelings and emotions of a young lady as she attends her first ball. Leila is in awe of everything about the dance...
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Her First Ball
In this story of pictorial intensity, the story of a young country girl's introduction "to the beginning of everything," there are a few characters of consequence and others who briefly appear:...
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Her First Ball
“Her First Ball” by Katherine Mansfield is realistic fiction written in the form of a short story. Katherine Mansfield writes the story of a young lady who is attending her first ball. This...
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Her First Ball
A story of musicality and pictorial intensity, "Her First Ball" describes Leila's excitement at the idea of attending a ball where she will get to dance with young men rather than the other girls...
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Her First Ball
Locked into the human soul there is always an envious part that encourages its being to drive a gratuitous nail of cruelty into those who have what others have already lost, an envy of the joie de...
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Miss Brill
One noteworthy thing about all of Katherine Mansfield's writings is that she is generally less concerned about plot than she is about her characters and the themes she wants to convey. The themes...
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Her First Ball
An absolutely lyric piece of writing, "Her First Ball" is composed using the tempo of a waltz with its wording. In this story, Katherine Mansfield relates Leila's first experience of the...
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Her First Ball
"Her First Ball" is told from the perspective of a third person narrator; this is the point of view. The third person narrator describes the sights and sounds of the ball in detail and this...
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Her First Ball
One way in which Leila could be characterized is being overwhelmed with so much in the moment. Leila is overcome with the reality of what the moment presents. The ball, the pomp and celebrated...
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Her First Ball
The old man's words strike at the reality that faces all human beings. Given all the pomp and production, all the stress regarding how one looks, and all the attention given to how one appears to...
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Her First Ball
On one level, the old, fat man who speaks of what the future might hold for Leila could serve as a symbolic representation of her own fears. This can be seen in her reaction to what the man says:...
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Her First Ball
Leila [might have said] Perhaps her first real partner was the cab. It did not matter that she shared the cab with the Sheridan girls and their brother. She sat back in her own little corner of...
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Her First Ball
Given how Mansfield believed in the idea of "risk, risk everything," she would hope that Lelia would not define herself in the context of the evening's ball. I think that Mansfield would want...
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Her First Ball
The original question had to be edited. I would suggest that Lelia is different from the other girls at the ball with the hesitation displayed in the excerpt. The reticence featured in "as if I...
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Her First Ball
Mansfield presents Leila's thoughts as buzzing with anticipation and excitement both before and during the ball. Being able use a narrative voice that captures how Leila feels and appears to the...
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Her First Ball
Leila is young. The reactions she featured to her first ball are consistent with those of young people and the sense of excitement that comes along with being youthful. She regales at the beauty,...
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Her First Ball
The first thing to consider is that Leila's character, although is sharing her first ball with kids of her own class, does not really belong to the group. She has never gone to a ball before, she...
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Her First Ball
Leila, the main character of "Her First Ball" is indirectly described as a girl who lives in an area that is quite isolated from the excitement of the city. In fact she even says that her closest...
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Her First Ball
There are specific subtopics within the theme of "youth", as the central theme of "Her First Ball" that are treated in a way that the reader can associate with the main character's emotions during...
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Her First Ball
The thoughts of the old man as he dances with Leila are actually very well mapped out for the reader through what he says to her. He is clearly reminiscing about his youth and how quickly old age...
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Her First Ball
In contrast to the imaginative delights of Leila on the night of her first formal ball as she "floats away like a flower that is tossed into a pool" is the sudden interruption of the old fat man,...
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Her First Ball
Figurative language devices entail the use of words in a creative way so that the reader can visualize a picture, or a specific and unique effect. As a coming of age story, "Her First Ball" uses...
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Her First Ball
For Leila, her entrance into the ball are significant because they represent a girl's first foray into the conditioned world of what it means to be a woman. Leila is possessed by a sense of...
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Her First Ball
One useful way to connect both of these texts is through the principal theme of disillusionment and how it is explored in the case of both of the central characters depicted in these stories. For...
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Her First Ball
One useful way to connect both of these texts is through the principal theme of disillusionment and how it is explored in the case of both of the central characters depicted in these stories. For...
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Her First Ball
This is a tough question. On one hand, I think that Mansfield denies or prevents Leila's feelings through not raising questions or objections to how women are perceived socially. She is bothered...
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Her First Ball
The theme of this postmodernist tale, set sometime before 1921 though first published in 1921, is a classic coming of age theme. Mansfield describes a young woman's first encounter with the wider...
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Her First Ball
Katherine Mansfield's "Her First Ball" is what is known as a coming-of-age story. This means that the main character will experience an event that will change his or her perspective for good. The...
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Her First Ball
The contrast between Leila's life before the ball and what is happening at the ball help to highlight the distance from where she was to where she is now. On one hand, the contrast helps to...
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Her First Ball
Many of Katherine Mansfield's narratives are characterized by what has been described as "pictorial intensity," evoking various states of happiness, longing, or despair. "Her First Ball" certainly...
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Her First Ball
In "Her First Ball," Mansfield describes a bittersweet moment of innocence and maturation. Having grown up in the country, 15 miles from the closest neighbor, Leila's experience at the ball is more...
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Her First Ball
A short story about maturation and coming of age, Katherine Mansfield's "Her First Ball" uses as one of its primary themes the conceptualization of life as it is, and not as our circumstances, or...
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Her First Ball
The importance of the setting in the stories "The Destructors" and "Her First Ball", as well as in the play The Fly in the Ointment is that they provide the backdrop to a series of events that will...
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Her First Ball
In Katherine Mansfield's story "Her First Ball", the theme of the loss of innocence is treated by using contrast in the description of the different instances that bring out the natural spark of...
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Her First Ball
I would want to start by looking at the way that story begins before the ball actually starts, with Leila's trip to the ball in the cab with the Sheridan girls. What this does is that it allows the...
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Her First Ball
A young girl called Leila has come to the city to stay with her cousins, the Sheridans. As the story opens, they are going to a ball. Leila is very excited: this is her first ball. Once there, she...
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Her First Ball
The main themes of the story 'Her First Ball are very dramatically portrayed throughout the story. The story conveys the idea of a girl's first experience of a ball. the exposition of leila...
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Her First Ball
Excitement and anticipation are conveyed through the way in which Leila is shown to be thinking of the ball and obsessed by it even in the opening paragraph. Note the way that she equates being in...
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Her First Ball
I belive mansfeild through the character of Leila is mocking young girls of her time. Herself being quite a confident women, she has portrayed leila as the opposite of her own personality. Whereas...
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Her First Ball
Leila is the protagonist of the story 'her first ball' She is shown very excited and enthusiastic at the start of the story as it is was her first time ever going to a ball. She was so excited that...
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Her First Ball
The Fat man was sucessful in brain washing Leila. He told her that if she would continue dancing, she'll grow old and will one day be sitting in that crowd of old people who only sat watching the...
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Her First Ball
Katherine Mansflied's story of "pictorial intensity" presents an ingenue from the outback who attends her first ball. Mesmerized by the magic of the night, the innocent Leila perceives The road...
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Her First Ball
In Katherine Mansfield's "Her First Ball," the beginning of the short story tells us about Leila's state of mind, and the importance of this moment in her life. We find that Lelia is inexperienced....
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Her First Ball
Mansfield reveals Leila's thoughts through narrator commentary, indirect speech, free indirect speech, and sensory and psychological reactions. She opens the narrative with narrator commentary in...
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Her First Ball
The most pronounced element of Mansfield's style is the close proximity of the involved, subjective narrator. Narrators may be distanced or close in proximity, as they may be objective or...
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Her First Ball
The theme of "Her First Ball" is one related to the pangs of growing up, one might say it is the lighter side of a coming of age story. Leila attends her first ball, all nerves and dreams, and...
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Her First Ball
The question isn't so much "what is Sheridan girls" as it is "who are the Sheridan girls." They are first of all, the sisters with whom Leila is going to the ball. They are secondly, the sisters of...
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Her First Ball
This is an interesting question to consider. Generally, Mansfield is famed for the way in which she depicts the powerless position of women in a patriarchal society, and so this would suggest that...
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Her First Ball
The old man serves as a reminder that life is not perfect. Even in Leila's dreamy environment, there is a reality check when the old man claims that Leila will too grow old and find herself sitting...
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Her First Ball
Perhaps the main theme of Katherine Manfield's "Her First Ball" is the resilience of youth. For, while appearances vs. reality is one theme, and the temporality of absolute happiness is another,...