Katherine Mansfield 's The Garden Party

The Roaring Twenties fostered a split between America’s past and future. Prior to World War I, America remained rooted in the conservative nature of the nineteenth century. After the war ended, Americans broke away from their traditional habits and intellection as they transitioned into a modern era. The rapid social and economic change influenced innovation that caused people’s morals to deviate from their upbringing. Many people began to take bold moves that later influenced a decade full of cultural advancement and prosperity. Among the many influential figures of the 1920s, Louise Brooks became an icon of the decade. Brooks developed her fame as soon as she began her career, and her personality stood out among other women, and

Neil Gaiman once said “ A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.” When I first heard this quote I immediately thought of the unpredictable book An Abundance of Katherines by John Green. This book is about a guy named Colin Singleton who has been a child prodigy since the age of two and only dates girls with name Katherine. After being dumped by the nineteenth Katherine or K-19 he finds himself on a road trip with his lazy, overweight, and sometimes muslim best friend Hassan. On this roadtrip, Colin tries to solve what he calls The Theorem of Katherine Predictability so he can hopefully find his soulmate and have a purpose in life. During their adventure they meet this girl named Lindsey Lee Wells who becomes a close friend with the boys, and little does Colin know there is much more to life than a girl

In many stories women are portrayed as the less important to the two genders. Women and men should be treated equally, but why are they not? In the story “The Dinner party” by Mona Gardner women were not being treated as equals, but in the end it proved that they were the same at reacting in scary situations. The story is located in India and they were getting together at the hostess Mrs.Wynnes house. They spirited conversation soon went to men saying that women couldn't control themselves.

Tables for Ladies is set in the interior of an unknown restaurant. There are four figures in this piece: two guests, a cashier, and a waitress. The two guests, a man and a woman, are sitting at one of the tables and seem to be having a conversation. The cashier stands nearby the cash register, possibly counting the amount of money in it. The waitress is arranging the display of fruit, which is presumably at the front of the restaurant. The restaurant contains wall mirrors, polished woodwork and checkerboard blue and white tiles on the floor. The artist, Edward Hopper, and his wife, Jo, had given each figure a name while this piece was painting. The couple is Max Scherer and his wife, Sadie, the cashier is Anne Popebogales and the waitress is Olga. By personal observation, this piece contains bright and vibrant colors. It also seems to portray a scene that can be identified in modern, everyday life, as opposed to an art piece based on religious scenes from the Bible or Greek or Roman mythology. This painting is meant to portray the changing roles of women after the First World War, which can be evident in the fact that the two people working in this restaurant are both women.

“The Dinner Party” by Mona Gardner is a short story about how control can really affect a situation and how being able to stay calm in a crisis no matter what gender you are. The hostess proves that woman can have the same amount of control as men have when she was placed in a stressful situation. A naturalist

The flow of the novel starts as Woolf finds the opening line of her new novel: "Mrs. Dalloway decided she would buy the flowers herself." The flowers would proof an important metaphor in the book. This thought of buying the flowers herself would link Woolf and Clarissa. Clarissa states the same words to her lover in preparing for Richard's party. And yet the flowers would reappear in Laura Browns life as her husband buys flowers for his own birthday. Flowers that normally represent life and color ironically represent sadness and loneliness in this novel.

Her family also grows with the introductions of new characters who become important parts of Taylor’s life. Two of these characters are her neighbors Edna and Virgie May, who let Taylor and Lou Ann leave “the kids with [them] on their front porch to be looked after... It was awfully convenient” (153). They always cheerfully assisted, and even when the child in her care was being attacked, Edna “saved her” (224). They aid Taylor many times, so she owes much to them. Another pair of characters whom the author acquaints Taylor with is Estevan and Esperanza. Almost immediately after they are introduced, they become great friends with her. Unlike many men she knows, she admits that she “...[likes] Estevan” (150), and he and Esperanza end up helping Taylor a great deal. A significant instance of this assistance is when Taylor is in danger of losing her child, Turtle. When she asks them if they will stay with her to provide “moral support” (264) during her search for a relative of Turtle’s that could help her, they “without hesitation...said they wanted to go with me” (264). Then, when she cannot find anyone, she asks them if they are willing to help her by pretending to be Turtle’s parents. This is a very dangerous task, but “they told [her], then and there, that they wanted to do it” (283). Taylor is indebted to them because they are always willing to support and help her

As it begins we meet Ms. Freeman, she and her husband have been working for Mrs. Hopewell for four years. She kept them for so long because she didn’t think of them as trash but yet they were good country people. The First thing that we learn about Ms. Hopewell is that her previous worker says she was the nosiest woman on earth. But Ms.

The main idea for an interpretation of a deeper meaning of the story, The Garden Party by Mansfield, is relating life, and death to be held hand-in-hand. In other words, one day I can live happy and think I can be eternal but death is always near. I don’t usually like to think about death because it can be something scary and overwhelming. Although in this story, I can see that Mrs. Sheridan is a woman from a high-class society. A family that is concerned about with what other people think and the fact of just having a blast every time they are able to. When Mrs. Sheridan heard about the death of Mr. Scott she felt pity for a moment, but continued her party arrangements. In contrast, her daughter, Laura, seemed more humane because when her mother thought about giving the party’s leftovers to her neighbors, she felt that it was rude. Therefore, I can see that she feels empathy with the death of Mr. Scott.

This novel begins by Ellen, the main character, announcing that she had the desire to kill her father when she was younger. Throughout the first chapter you begin to understand why she felt that way. One reason being that her father treated both her, and her sick mother with no respect or dignity. Ellen’s father was extremely demanding, and showed no sympathy toward his wife’s sickness. Furthermore, her father was an alcoholic which contributed to his abusive behavior along with his own death. Also, In this chapter, Ellen reveals that her mother and father have both passed away. Since then, she has moved in with what I believe is her new foster mother. She explains that life is much better now that she is in a nice home with good food to eat.

This is where many of the town’s people have come to await greater understanding. Emily has passed away from giving birth to a child and the town is having her funeral. Emily realizes she is dead and she wishes to go back in time. She goes back in time to her twelfth birthday. Once she is back in time, she realizes how futile it is to return to the past. She becomes deeply saddened by everything she failed to notice while she was alive. Emily then asks to be taken back to her grave. The past cannot be relived. George collapses in front of Emily’s headstone signifying the most universal lament of them all: that we, our loved ones, everything living, dies. The author tells us that humans in everyday life that are occupied with material things and their petty jobs know very little about joy and true happiness. Truth can only be found in the

“The Doll’s House” by Katherine Mansfield is a short story revolving around the three Burnell sisters and their dollhouse. The girls, Isabel, Lottie, and Kezia, are overjoyed upon receiving the dollhouse as a gift and want to show all of their classmates but are not aloud to talk to the little Kelvey girls. Katherine Mansfield’s story, “The Doll’s House,” represents how social status can affect people’s personalities, starting at youth, through the symbolism surrounding the Burnell’s dollhouse, the descriptions of all the characters, and how all the girls in the story act compared to their parents.

This story is about a wife named Louise Mallard who has heart trouble, so she must be informed carefully about her husband’s death. Her sister, Josephine, is unfortunately the one who has to break the news to newly widowed wife. One of her husband’s friends, Richard, learned about her husband’s death when he was reading the newspaper and heard about the crashing of a train that Brently was on. Louise is devastated when she learns of her husband’s death and runs upstairs to be alone. Louise sits down and ponders about life while looking out the window and hears a vendor yelling what he is selling. Still crying, she looks into the distance wondering what’s next. She is nervous for her life ahead and doesn’t know what she is going to do without her husband. She starts to think about what life is going to be like without having anyone telling her what to do, when to do it, or how to do it. She starts to feel warm inside knowing she is finally free. Louise knows she will become overcome with emotions when she is forced to see Brently’s body. She imagines the years

From the very beginning of the novel, the reader is confronted with thoughts of death from the main character, Clarissa Dalloway. When running her errand, she plummets into deep thought about her death and what would follow it,

In the short story “The Garden Party” that is by Katherine Mansfield in 1922. There is some important issues that are going on in Laura’s life that she has to deal with. Laura’s conflict with her family and also with society, her conflict with self and also about her, and how the theme works in the story.