Miss Brill
“The Garden-Party” by Katherine Mansfield is a life-changing short story about a girl named Laura who awakens to the fact that she and her entire family have a totally different set of values. Her internal conflict is that she goes through many stages of denial and reasoning until she is finally forced to decide what is right. There are many factors, events, and complications that affect her final decision and some symbols that reveal her conflict. Laura has respectable values that show her humanity and modesty throughout the story but, unfortunately, does get confused at times when faced with a problem or something alien to her. For example, when the workmen come to set up the marquee, Laura tries to handle them the way her mother would, “’Good morning,’” But when she said that, she felt as if she were a horrible person and was ashamed. “’Oh—er—have you come—is it about the marquee?’” At this moment, she tries to be like her mother thinking that her mother’s opinion of lower people, that she and Laura were above and superior to people that had to work to make a living and that all such people were grubby low-lives and a waste of their precious time, was right. However, when she hears how she sounds in her attempts, she is
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Approximate Word count = 1121
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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