“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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The Garden Party is written by Katherine Mansfield‚ a New Zealand prominent modernist writer of short fiction. Set in colonial New Zealand‚ "The Garden Party" falls into two clearly differentiated parts. For the major characters‚ Laura Sheridan‚ Mrs. Sheridan‚ Meg Sheridan‚ Jose Sheridan and Laurie Sheridan are considered by because they appeared in the story quite often. And for the minor characters‚ they are mostly the workers and helpers in the party‚ except for Mr. Sheridan and Mr
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the classical writers of English short stories‚ and it is very much due to her works that the short story gained a full literary status. In The Garden Party‚ we meet Laura Sheridan‚ a young girl living in the rich Sheridan family. She was the youngest daughter in the family. The theme of The Garden Party is very simple. All conversations and descriptions was about the garden party and the death of the poor young man who left his wife and five children behind. The people in the family were divided
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The Garden Party is a 1922 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in the Saturday Westminster Gazette on 4 February 1922‚ then in the Weekly Westminster Gazette on 18 February 1922. It later appeared in The Garden Party and Other Stories.[1] Contents [hide] 1 Plot summary 2 Characters in The Garden Party 3 Major themes 4 References to other works 5 Literary significance 6 References 7 External links [edit]Plot summary The Sheridan family is preparing to host a
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the modern short story form with her innovative literary style. In such influential stories as "The Garden Party‚" "Bliss‚" and "Prelude‚" Mansfield perfected her meticulous craft‚ examining the human condition in restrained and deceptively everyday prose. Her avowed intention was to intensify "the so-called small things so that everything is significant." In "The Garden Party‚" for example‚ the description of sunbeams playing on an inkwell is the kind of detailed observation that lends an almost
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Thomas C. Foster‚ the author elucidates that several interpretations can be drawn regarding the meaning of a story. For example‚ in chapter 27 entitled “The Test Case”‚ Foster explores this very claim by providing the interpretations linked to “The Garden Party” by Katherine Mansfield. In his novel he states that these interpretations range from the disparities between social classes‚ to a representation of hell and the journey Persephone‚ the captive of Hades‚ goes on. Foster’s novel presents the idea
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titular ‘The Garden Party’ sets the tone for this collection. Mansfield deals with a wide variety of themes that ranges from family relationships‚ life and death‚ love and the coming of age through quiet musings and monologues. Underlying themes for this selection of stories are social and class issues. Mansfield selects characters who are outsiders to explore social predicaments. There is the strained young father (‘At the Bay) and a young girl’s dilemma of continuing a garden party after a poor
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privileged family. Whether she flourishes depends on whether she can accept and understand the world beyond the Sheridan family’s garden paradise. Two developments‚ one minor and one major‚ suggest that Laura can do so and thereby grow into a mature adult. These are as follows: The First .......When four workmen enter the grounds to set up the marquee for the garden party‚ Laura approves of their smiling faces. But after she suggests placing the marquee on the lily lawn‚ a workman rejects the idea
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The story‚ “The Garden Party” By: Katherine Mansfield is a story about a young girl named Laura who was dramatically changed when a passing of a man happened. Laura was in charge of a garden party then suddenly her neighbor Mr. Scott died. Laura has never experienced anything like this in her life. Mr. Scott left behind a wife and 5 children. Laura felt so bad about what had happened she wanted to cancel the party. Each year her family planned a large garden party. Every year her mother
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Approach in Literary Criticism (Written report) PSYCHOANALYTICAL APPROACH IN LITERATURE Psychoanalytic literary criticism refers to literary criticism or literary theory which‚ in method‚ concept‚ or form‚ is influenced by the tradition of psychoanalysis begun by Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalytic reading has been practiced since the early development of psychoanalysis itself‚ and has developed into a heterogeneous interpretive tradition. As Patricia Waugh writes‚ ’Psychoanalytic literary criticism
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