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    A Study Guide for Katharine Mansfield's The Garden Party
    A Study Guide for Katharine Mansfield's The Garden Party
    A Study Guide for Katharine Mansfield's The Garden Party
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    A Study Guide for Katharine Mansfield's The Garden Party

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    A Study Guide for Katharine Mansfield's "The Garden Party," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 21, 2015
    ISBN9781535836739
    A Study Guide for Katharine Mansfield's The Garden Party

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      A Study Guide for Katharine Mansfield's The Garden Party - Gale

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      The Garden Party

      Katherine Mansfield

      1922

      Introduction

      Widely anthologized, The Garden Party is considered Katherine Mansfield’s finest piece of short fiction. Such modernist authors as Virginia Woolf were profoundly influenced by Mansfield’s stream-of-consciousness and symbolic narrative style. The Garden Party is a remarkably rich and innovative work that incorporates Mansfield’s defining themes: New Zealand, childhood, adulthood, social class, class conflict, innocence, and experience.

      Structured around an early afternoon garden party in New Zealand, The Garden Party has clear connections to Mansfield’s own childhood and adolescence in New Zealand. The main character of the story, Laura, is an idealistic young girl who wishes to cancel the planned afternoon gathering when she learns of the death of a working-class laborer who lives down the hill from her parents’ home. The story concerns Laura’s alternating moments of resistance and conformity to her mother’s idea of class relations. Like Laura, Mansfield was the daughter of a well-to-do businessman—Harold Beauchamp—and his wife, Annie Burnell Dyer Beauchamp. Like the Sheridans in The Garden Party, the Beauchamps lived luxuriously, in grand houses in and around Wellington, New

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