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The Change Of The Characters In The Dinner Party
Have you ever wondered how a story would be like if the characters changed? “The Dinner Party” shows that each and every character part can take an effect the story. This expresses the story’s own message carried by the characters. In the story, women indeed have surpassed the days in which they screamed at the sign of grave and immediate danger. One example of the author using the characters to show a message is she used a young girl and a colonel who were guests to signal the conversation. The next example is the author uses the hostess of the party to show and express how women are what the young girl had said. The last example is, the story uses the colonel to show that people can be arrogant.
 The young girl, who signals the beginning of the discussion about how women have changed, begins the whole story and brings out the message. She created the message; her character makes the lesson apparent. In the story, it states "A spirited discussion …show more content…
When a snake appears at the party, she found out about it, (as the reader we did not know how.) After the American naturalist helped get rid of the snake, he asks “‘Just a minute,’ the American says, turning to his hostess. (Mrs. Wynnes), how did you know that cobra was in the room?’” This was one of her points the hostess supported the young girl. In the story, it states "A faint smile lights up the woman's face as she replies: 'Because it was crawling across my foot." The author uses this to show that women have “outgrown the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse era” because they are often stereotyped as being afraid of trouble and screaming. It seemed like the man, the American naturalist, was the one who showed control in the entire situation. But truth-be-told the hostess was the one who had shown total control because she had not let anyone else know there was a snake and reacted very

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