THE GARDEN PARTY (1921) By Katherine Mansfield And after all the weather was ideal. They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden-party 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 sometimes in early summer. The 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 roses‚ you
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The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield 1. What kind of party was it going to be? What flowers were there in the garden? Who was responsible to arrange things for the party? 2. What workmen came to Laura? What place did Laura suggest for the marquee? Why didn’t the workmen agree? 3. What surprised her in a tall fellow? What did she think of workmen? 4. Who telephoned? What was the conversation? What did Laura do when she put back the receiver? Ho did she feel? 5. What did Meg‚ Jose and Hans
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Villalba Mr. Moreno AP Lit/Comp‚ Period 3 10 June 2012 The Garden Party The wonderful short story “The Garden Party” found in Chapter 27 of the book How to Read Literature like a Professor shows the maturing of a young woman. The main character‚ a vibrant girl named Laura‚ takes on big responsibilities and sees how hard the world can really be. She goes through a series of test that introduced her to growing up‚ such as planning a garden party and helping out her neighbors during a hard time. This great
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This essay is written by Liesanne den Hollander On the date of 4 October 2011 This short story‚ written by Mansfield‚ tells us about Laura‚ who is a girl belonging to the upper class‚ about her garden party‚ and about the death of a workers man. Since Mansfield’s father was a successful businessman ‚ she also belonged to the upper class. Therefore‚ it is prominent that Laura and Mansfield seem to share the same opinion about class differences; which is that everybody should be treated equally
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distinction and status is very important. Many people idolize individuals of the upper class and will do anything to emulate them. In “The Garden Party‚” by Katherine Mansfield and “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant both authors emphasize that class determines the way of life for both the protagonist in each short story. In the short story “The Garden Party” written by Katherine Mansfield an omniscient narrator explains the life of the protagonist Laura Sheridan and her family. Laura Sheridan
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The Garden Party "The Garden Party"‚ written by Katherine Mansfield‚ is the story of an upper-class British family who is throwing a party for friends. It is a warm‚ summer day while the family makes preparations‚ by cooking food and setting up a location for the marquee and band. While preparing‚ the family hears about a tragic accident which occurred in the poor part of the neighbourhood‚ at the bottom of the hill. A young man was thrown from a horse‚ and killed‚ leaving behind his wife and five
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“The Garden Party” Interpretation Analysis One can appreciate Katherine Mansfield’s‚ “The Garden Party”. This short story opens up with a character named Laura Sheridan and her conventional family’s’ lavish life of living. Mansfield portrays the correlation between different social classes and the contrasts of illusion versus reality. In detail‚ this can be exhibited through Laura Sheridan‚ when she opens herself up to the external world and discovers the death of her neighbor‚ Mr. Scott. Laura
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In Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party‚” the third reasons that show the rich Sheridans think they are better than the poor Scotts is because where the Scotts live it is not as clean as the place where the Sheridans live. However‚ the Sheridans forbid their children to play with the Scott’s children when they were small. Mansfield in her work “The Garden Party‚” Mrs. Sheridan claims the Scotts speak repulsive language and she protected and forbidden her children to play with the Scotts’ children
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doing which could be right or wrong. In today’s time‚ most people in America neglect responsibilities which leads others affected in ways that may not have been anticipated. In the story (“The Garden Party”) lura shows this type of responsibility she hears about a man’s death‚ she tries stopping the party but her stubborn rich family won’t consent to it. Showing this really benefits society but not everyone else sees it like laura does. When people contribute to society it runs better and keeps it
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Through her short story "The Garden Party‚" Katherine Mansfield portrays The Sheridan family as the classic stereotype of shallow and pretentious rich people‚ who thinks of themselves as better than common people. There is‚ however‚ one member of the family‚ Laura‚ who is quite unlike the others. Out of all her family she is the only one who seems to have a little bit of common sense; she presents herself as a more human character‚ and shows the reader that despite the selfishness and superficiality
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