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
Then, Laura starts to try and please them thinking "Perhaps he wouldn't mind so much. Look at yourself!" Laura's mother seems to be trying to make Laura accept her values by putting her hat (values) on her. " Also, Laura feels very stupid in her velvet dress and pretty hat because she is supposed to look sad and sorry for the poor man. The bread and butter that Laura is holding represents her values. The worker says something and Laura wonders "whether it was quite respectful of a workman to talk to her of bangs slap in the eye. The mother says, "My child!" said her mother, "the hat is yours. When she walked into the dead man's room, she thought, "What did garden-parties and baskets and lace frocks matter to him? He was far from all those things. Then, because of the worker's friendliness, "Laura took a big bite of her bread-and-butter as she stared at the little drawing.
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