Brief Summary Of Katherine Mansfield's The Garden Party

The short-story The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield tells about Laura and her family who are throwing a garden party in this one particular summer day. It’s also the day that man, who lives close-by - but in lower class - dies. Laura starts to suspect that throwing a party in the same day as someone close-by has died is not the best idea. After countless of conversations about should they still hold party - they ended up doing it. The main character, Laura belongs to a family who lives in upper class, most likely in England. This is shown in a novel when people who are working in the house are calling her miss or miss Laura. Also rather beginning of the text the narrator states that Jose - who is one of Laura’s sisters - loves to give orders to servants and they as well loved

After saying goodbyes to the guests mother gets an idea that they should make up a basket and send that to the family of the man who died. Mother wanted to give them everything that was left over from the party. Laura doesn’t think that as a good idea as she doubts that would the poor woman really like to get their party’s left-overs. After a while mother talks Laura over and sends her to deliver this basket to the family. In the way there Laura becomes scared as the lane began, smoky and dark. She hoped that she would have put on a coat. This might mean that there started to get little cold but that could also mean that she started to feel insecure as she had this hat that was standing out and clothes also were making her feel like she got everything too easily - although this is more speculation. Laura felt that it was mistake to go there; she knew it all along and even thought of going back but in the end she was sure it as now too late as she stood in front of the house. In the text they say “She actually said, ‘Help me, God,” which gives a picture that Laura really didn't believe into God since the writer uses the word;