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A summary and analysis of the short story "The Garden Party" by Katherine Mansfield, a classic example of the modernist genre of the "lost generation". The story explores themes of class, identity, and social conflict through the eyes of Laura, a young girl who attends a garden party with her family and their guests. Learn about the plot, characters, themes, quotes, and literary devices of this classic work of fiction.
The Garden Party" is a 1922 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published (as "The Garden-Party") in three parts in the Saturday Westminster Gazette on 4 and 11 February 1922, and the Weekly Westminster Gazette on 18 February 1922. It later appeared in The Garden Party and Other Stories.
garden-party if they had ordered it. Windless, warm, the sky without a cloud. Only the blue was veiled with a haze of light gold, as it is sometim gardener had been up since dawn, mowing the lawns and sweeping them, until the grass and the dark flat rosettes where the daisy plants had been seemed to shine. As for the
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The Garden Party, short story by Katherine Mansfield, published as the title story in The Garden Party, and Other Stories (1922). The story centres on Laura Sheridan’s response to the accidental death of a neighbourhood workman; Laura suggests that, out of respect for the man’s family, Laura’s
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Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party” explores themes of maturation and the loss of innocence as its protagonist, Laura, develops an understanding that distinctions of class vanish in the face of human mortality. The story’s exposition describes the setting as a perfect summer day at the home of the wealthy Sheridan family.
20 de jan. de 2016 · A short story by the modernist writer Katherine Mansfield, ‘The Garden Party’ centres on a young woman who attends a garden party with her family and a poor man who died nearby. She has an epiphany of joy and happiness when she sees herself in the mirror, and realises that she does not have to conform to the expectations of her upper-middle-class society. The story explores themes of class, identity, and death in a complex and ambiguous way.
10 de jul. de 1998 · The Garden-Party. And after all the weather was ideal. They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it. Windless, warm, the sky without a cloud. Only the blue was veiled with a haze of light gold, as it is sometimes in early summer.
