Summary Of The Dinner Party By Mona Gardner

“The Dinner Party” by Mona Gardner is a short story that proves that a woman is not just a person who is scared easily and is less intelligent than men. The hostess notices that there is a cobra in the room and immediately stays still and tells the American boy what she noticed. “The boy’s eyes widen, and he quickly leaves the room.” This shows that if the hostess stays still and stays under control and the American boy gets very frightened and jumps out of his chair that a woman’s first reaction is not to just scream and run away but that they are equal to men. The American boy then scans the room to try to find the cobra, once he realized that the cobra could only be under the table he thought of a clever idea to make sure no one moved he