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Full Story Summary. Previous Next. On a perfect early summer day, the Sheridan women prepare for their afternoon garden party. This year, Mrs. Sheridan has given the task to her daughters, although she is not completely hands off. Four workmen arrive to set up a large tent. Mrs. Sheridan sends Laura, her artistic daughter, to supervise them.
Overview. Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) was a New Zealand-born poet and master of the short story. She published “The Garden Party” in 1922 near the very end of her short career and life. The story follows Laura, whose upper-class family is preparing a garden party. Their perfect summer day is marred by the death of their working-class ...
The Garden Party is a short story by the New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in 1922 in the “Westminster Gazette” in three parts. Katherine Mansfield is known mostly for her short stories, many of which are quite astute. This one in particular poignantly reveals the vast social divide.
Work and Leisure. “The Garden Party” emphasizes the stark division between working-class people and economic elites in a deeply unequal society—in this case, early 20th century New Zealand. As she follows the wealthy Sheridan family on the day of their extravagant party, Mansfield critiques this society's division between elites who get ...
The Sheridans’ estate in “The Garden Party” is based on Mansfield’s own childhood home on Tinakori Road in Wellington, which is now a museum to her memory. She was determined to become a writer from grade school; in 1903, her family sent her and her two sisters to study in London where she quickly became an accomplished cellist.
6 de ago. de 2022 · Katherine Mansfield incorporated literary Modernism into the genre of the short story in The Garden-Party and Other Stories, published in 1922. The title story, written in 1921, emphasizes mood, emotion, and relationships of characters rather than plot and reveals the interior world of protagonist Laura, Mansfield’s representative, as she confronts class distinctions and considers the…
15 de out. de 2022 · the garden party by katherine mansfield. Publication date 1929 Publisher new york, alfred a knopf Collection printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Contributor
