Katherine Mansfield's The Garden Party

There comes a point in one’s life when they must recognize the hardships placed upon them, and instead of being ignorant of those hardships, they must confront them head-on. In “Marigolds”, a short story by Eugenia Collier, the main protagonist, Lizabeth, encounters various struggles that come with living in a poor town in rural Maryland during the Depression, allowing her to learn more about growing up and accepting reality with all its flaws. Lizabeth is a 14-year-old girl who feels a conflict between her inner child and her inner woman, as she is unable to do anything that satisfies both sides of her. She feels too old to be a child, yet too young to be a

When you first start reading Little House on the Prairie you notice it is told through the eyes of a little girl named Laura. Her point of view is very realistic and captivating. She pays very close attention to the details of the day to day living and the events that are happening around her. She also notices how the prairie looks and what the weather is like each day. With her descriptions you can picture everything in your mind clearly, and you feel like you are right there next to Laura living her life.

The setting and time period of this story supports the adventurous innocence of its youthful characters, as well as enriching the story’s momentous and climactic confrontation between the forward-looking Mona, and her more traditional mother, Helen.

Laura was a really nice and really caring person. At the age of ten she took care of all her ten siblings. Laura also risked her own life to save James (Husband). Her bravery was the number one character trait, She ran 9 hours alone in the dark. Laura defended the whole country by running those 9 hours. Laura Ingersoll was a really respected person. Without Laura, Canada right now would be much more different from how it is right

Laura replied with,” I’m Laura and this is Carmilla, my little sister.,” Then after they were invited to stay with them in the woods to be taken care of and fed. As they were all eating Laura decided to take it upon herself to ask the king if she could join the group to help and protect the poor.

I feel like in some cases I am a lot like her. I especially feel like this because I deeply care and worry for the horrendous things children in other countries endure, and how heart wrenching it is that they can’t escape the shackles placed on them by their oppressors. She represents a new place for kids like Ishmael to feel comfort and trust again which is important when these children enter society. When they open up to her it really proves . It’s a major message because it shows that people who have experienced such traumatic things can return to the state they were in before the war; happy and innocent. All of this is due to people like Laura who have patience and love for these kids and teens. That is why Laura is my favorite character as she represents what someone with patience and love can

Miss Brill “sits in other people’s lives,” as she watches her life fly away (201). Mansfield suggests that she finds her life empty, and she finds joy in drama of other people’s lives. Her loneliness was like a bare hole in her heart. Miss Brill seeks out excitement to remove her latent thoughts of her lonely existence. By using the other people at the park, Miss Brill finds a temporary filling for her need of companionship. When Miss Brill speaks about the people around her being in a theatrical production, it makes her “role” in life feel important. (202). “Even she had a part and came every Sunday… she was part of the performance after all” (202). Mansfield acknowledges a method to cope with the struggle towards Miss Brill’s realization that she is not important in society anymore. The use of emotional appeal emphasizes the lonely existence faced in the vision of Miss Brill.

One’s appearance is the first thing people judge when they come into contact. Some people immediately wonder about his or her status, weather that person comes from wealth, what their job is, are they married, do they have children, are the not wealthy. In the poem, short story, and drama being analyzed, the appearances of the characters and families are not what one may think. In fact, they are the complete opposite, one may say even deceiving. “Their minds shift and ready, like dunes” (Berger) is an interesting phrase used in Suzanne Berger’s “The Meal” to describe the state of the children. Berger’s “The Meal” along with Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” and Wendy Wasserstein’s Workout use carefully selected words, tone and imagery to portray a pertinent theme of deception in appearances. Suzanne Berger, Alice Walker, and Wendy Wasserstein all have some sort of family relationship and the woman of the family seems to bear the troubles and struggle. Throughout their literary works these problems help built the story. Alalysis, Oates-Indruchova Libora notes that women in today’s society are not as relevant as their counter parts. They do as much, if not more but do not receive the credit.

Laura, a spectacular film noir classic produced and directed by Otto Preminger, tells the story of a stunning young lady who the audience is led to believe was murdered in the entryway of her lavish apartment. When the film begins its journey, the audience learns that a woman named Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney) was shot in the face by an unknown murderer and that a handsome detective by the name of Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) has taken over the case and is on the hunt to solve Laura's death. As the film breezes through, the audience is introduced to several characters who become increasingly important to the scene. For example, Preminger presents Shelby Carpenter

To attain well-being in life one needs to surround themselves with friends and loved ones. Many researchers strongly believe that a person’s well-being can be directly affected by how many friends he or she has and also by the quality of the friendships. Most literature today uses friendship as a main topic because friendship is progressive and friendship cultivates other emotions and physical health. If we can understand how friendship affects someone 's well-being than we can make the world a happier place. It is easy to conclude from The Samurai 's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama, A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, and in life that friendships is essential for a person’s well-being.

The girl’s inner characterization resembles a coming of age character. She develops because of the action and her traits as a child are presented in contrast with her traits as a teenager. This contrast is emphasized using the third-person narrator at the beginning of

In “Miss Brill,” Katherine Mansfield utilizes Miss Brill’s thoughts and actions and the surroundings to characterize Miss Brill as a lonely character. Mansfield immediately introduces Miss Brill with a very odd scene that shows her conversation with the fur coat. This quickly and effectively establishes the type of person Miss Brill is. As a result, Mansfield suggests that Miss Brill is a lonely and an “abnormal” person to illustrate to the audience how society treats those who are not considered “normal” through the later actions of a young couple.

Laura proposes a halt of the party in respect of the family to which the rest of the family object. Laura is swayed from her stance on the party by an appeal to her vanity, but an inner battle begins between the light view of life her family and she held and the one of darkness with which she was confronted with.

Katherine Mansfield’s short story, Miss Brill, is a well-written story of an elderly, unmarried woman in Europe. In Miss Brill, Katherine Mansfield uses stream-of-consciousness point of view to show alienation and loneliness, appearances and reality, and Miss Brill’s perceptions as she attempts to make herself fit in with the park goers. Miss Brill is an older lady who makes a living teaching English to school children and reading newspapers to an “old invalid gentleman” (Wilson 2: 139). Her joy in life comes in her visits to the park on Sunday where she is notorious for “sitting in on other people’s lives” (Wilson 2: 140). It is there that her ritualistic, monotonous journey that Miss Brill refers to as a “play” takes place.

            Laura appears to be the most important character in the play, perhaps the main character intended by Williams.  Although she also engages in a world of illusion, hers is much different then Amanda's.  She has no pretenses, no real faults to speak of.  She is who