Analysis Of Katherine Mansfield s The Garden Party Essay

Kelsey Archuleta Ms. Sparks AP Lit p.6 8 December 2016 Title Katherine Mansfield was a modernist short story writer during the 1920’s. She wrote various short stories in the few years as an author, Mansfield s stories often commented on class, relationships, families, and sexuality, After reading a few of her most popular works the common theme of them though out was the central conclusion of them all is the protagonist coming of age by seeing the more realistic view on life. The common theme aids Mansfield’s in communicating to her readers the idea of one finally seeing the truths in his or hers personal lifestyles. Mansfield carries this central theme in all stories by using literary devices such as imagery and symbols. Mansfield’s stories contain her protagonist living in a situation where they are blinded by others or societies standards on how they should think or feel. For example Laura in The Garden Party , is confronted with the reality of death. Mansfield introduces the story by explaining t he extravagant garden party Laura’s mother is allowing her to plan. The details of Laura ordering around staff and the whole complexity of it all leads readers to believe that Laura and her family are of higher class. Because of this Laura has not been introduces to the realities of life such as Death. She has also been taught that because of her class other below her are â€Å"unacceptable† as her neighbors the Sheridans were unacceptable and â€Å"they were the greatest possibleShow MoreRelatedAnalysis Of Katherine Mansfield s The Garden Party 2275 Words   |  10 PagesBoth L.P Hartley and Katherine Mansfield present the poor as suffering as a result of the happiness of the rich. Within both texts, ‘The Go-Between’ and ‘The Garden Party’, the poor are shown to suffer but they are presented in two different ways. L.P Hartley presents one of the main characters, who is a rich, middle class woman manipulating a poor boy who visits from boar ding school through making him a messenger between her and her working class lover. Whereas, Mansfield presents the rich to ignoreRead MoreTylistic Analysis of Katherine Mansfield’s Garden Party1002 Words   |  5 PagesStylistic Analysis of Katherine Mansfield’s Garden Party To better comprehend our course: Style in Fiction, I have selected a short story the Garden Party, so as to analyze in terms of styles. 1. About the writer and the story 1.1 About the writer Beforehand, I’d like to give a brief introduction of the short story’s writer Katherine Mansfield and the short story. Katherine was born in Wellington, New Zealand, into a middle-class colonial family in 1888. She studied at Queens CollegeRead MoreIn Vincent O’Sullivan’S Finding The Pattern, Solving The1578 Words   |  7 PagesIn Vincent O’Sullivan’s Finding the Pattern, Solving the Problem: Katherine Mansfield The New Zealand European, it is noted that Katherine Mansfield ‘was an enthusiast for the cinema’, that ‘she acted in several movies’ and that ‘her letters frequently took up such images as the months that â€Å"stream by like a movie picture†Ã¢â‚¬â„¢(18). Furthermore, her short story At the Bay begins with the line ‘Very early morning’(Mansfield 5), that when interpreted from a literary standpoint, is more suited to a screenplay