The Garden Party College Essays Samples For Students

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An Alternating Arrangement Analysis
The portrayal of women in the short stories “I Stand Here Ironing” by Tillie Olsen and “The Garden Party” by Katherine Mansfield are quite similar to each other. The four most prominent themes when it comes to women and feminism in both stories are the image of a mother, women and physical appearances, assigned tasks to women, and social class. In the succeeding paragraphs, this essay will try to analyze and explain how those themes are present and are related from ...

Compare and contrast Laura and Rose, the two main characters in ‘The Garden Party’ and ‘Half a Grapefruit.’

Despite their differences, Laura and Rose have a lot in common. In both stories they are young girls who are faced with the reality of death at an early age. The way Mansfield and Munro write the stories is also similar: first person narrative is not used, but each story is clearly told from the central character’s point of view: in ‘The Garden Party’ we see everything through Laura’s eyes; in ‘Half a Grapefruit’ Rose’s consciousness filters what we hear and see as readers.

‘The Garden Party’, we assume, is set in New Zealand; ‘Half a Grapefruit’ in Canada. ...

'’'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.” . Kathrine Mansfield’s adult life was unconventional. The Garden Party harkens back to her youth and childhood in Wellington, New Zealand. The protagonist, Laura is a young lady growing up in a wealthy family in New Zealand. While not strictly autobiographic in nature, Laura could well be how Katherine Mansfield saw herself at that age. She is helping her family to prepare for a garden party to take place in the afternoon. In the morning, ...

The question of defining one’s gender has long been an issue. Contrary to the modern biological reduction that purports itself to be self-evident, people across the millennia have found different ways of being male or female. As always, art has been one of the greatest ways culture has had to depict this. Particularly, the lead young female characters in two short stories by women authors in the twentieth century will allow the reader to see one precise way of construction of the female gender, and the male one by subtraction. In Alice Munro’s “Boys and Girls” and ...