The Dinner Party By Mona Gardner
A snake is on my foot, help!That is probably what most people would do if they had a snake on their foot, but this isn't the case for a dinner party hostess in the short story “The Dinner Party,” written by Mona Gardner. In this story, a British woman puts on a dinner party. There arouses a conversation about males being better than females. The colonel states that females scream in scary situations and men don't. This was an argument that could be backed up by evidence until a small boy was asked by the woman to get a bowl of milk, also known as cobra bait. After some time, everybody in the room was aware of the cobra, and the men screamed, but the woman, who had the cobra on her foot, did not. This shows that the theme is to not underestimate somebody simply because of how they appear.
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For example, in the story, the woman is made fun of because the colonel thinks all she does is scream, and isn't as brave as men. They think this simply because she is a woman. They are proved wrong on this, however, because the woman is nothing but calm when a cobra slithers on her foot. This shows that the men underestimated her, and she made them feel sorry for it. The girl’s actions make her a key part of what makes up the theme, but so does the colonel as well. The colonel makes fun of females in this story for not being as brave as men. In the story, he shows that underestimating somebody can come back to haunt you. For example, in the story, the author says that everybody screamed when they became aware there was a snake, including the colonel, who had just made fun of girls because they aren't as brave as men. This shows readers that the colonel was wrong and shouldn't have jumped to conclusions about girls so quickly. Then again, maybe the colonel wouldn't have been so scared if the boy had said something
For example, in the story, the woman is made fun of because the colonel thinks all she does is scream, and isn't as brave as men. They think this simply because she is a woman. They are proved wrong on this, however, because the woman is nothing but calm when a cobra slithers on her foot. This shows that the men underestimated her, and she made them feel sorry for it. The girl’s actions make her a key part of what makes up the theme, but so does the colonel as well. The colonel makes fun of females in this story for not being as brave as men. In the story, he shows that underestimating somebody can come back to haunt you. For example, in the story, the author says that everybody screamed when they became aware there was a snake, including the colonel, who had just made fun of girls because they aren't as brave as men. This shows readers that the colonel was wrong and shouldn't have jumped to conclusions about girls so quickly. Then again, maybe the colonel wouldn't have been so scared if the boy had said something