What Laura Didn't learn in The Garden Party

At the end of the garden party, Laura was exposed to the life she had never encountered so far, suddenly realized that "life and death coexist, and that coexistence in the world is beautiful" (Magalaner 101). She knows that death is not necessarily related to ugliness, but she is a natural process to compare with healthy and quiet sleep. But her obvious Epiphany is really a mere surprise. The world of Laura is developing with good things of life, garden parties, flowers, and she has been surrounded by beauty throughout her life.

In Katherine Mansfield's short story "Garden Party", when he heard of the death of a man living under them, the hero was preparing a gorgeous garden party. Although he is from the lower class, Laura still believes that the male family is not so sensitive that the party must be canceled. She told her sister Jose, they needed to stop the party and her older sister answered Laura's proposal, "I will stop the garden party. Dear Laura, do not be ridiculous. Please do not be so luxurious "(228).

"Garden Party" This 1920 story is centered around the annual garden party by the Sheridan family, held in the birthplace of Mansfield in New Zealand. Sheradan's child, Laura - adult young woman - are looking forward to this rally and are keen to participate in preparatory work. But when Sheridan was preparing for the party, a working-class man living in the poorer part of the village was tragically killed when his horse was lifted and thrown out of the cart There was news. . Laura is full of sympathy for the deceased and her family, begging her mother and brothers and sisters to cancel their garden party in tragedy. How will they organize a garden party, music, guests and laughter when a nearby family mourn her husband and father's death? The end of the story questions more than answers about the complex reaction to the death of the male of Laura in particular.

Much of the critical discussion about "Garden Party" focuses on the structure of the story. Warren S. Walker argued that Laura 's ambiguous response to Carter' s body proved flawed in the conclusion of the 'Garden Party' and caused considerable controversy. Robert Murray Davis, Donald S. Taylor, Adam J. Sogin, in answer to Walker's question, believed that the center of the story was opposite (living and death, dream and reality, youth and maturity, beauty and ugliness Here). It leads to artistic unity and satisfies the tension of the theme. Another commentator, Ben Satterfield, found that the ambiguity of "the garden party" was consistent with the irony he found through the story. In recent years, people's attention is focused on issues such as Laura's characteristics and results on the author's social class.