The Garden Party" is a 1922 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published (as "The Garden-Party") in three parts in the Saturday Westminster Gazette on 4 and 11 February 1922, and the Weekly Westminster Gazette on 18 February 1922. [1] It later appeared in The Garden Party and Other Stories. [2]
At first glance, Katherine Mansfield’s 1922 short story “The Garden Party” tells a fairly straightforward story of a young girl who gains greater understanding about life and death. Set in Mansfield’s own childhood hometown of Wellington, New Zealand, the story is not the coming-of-age narrative that one might expect.
They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it. Windless, warm, the sky without a cloud. Only the blue was veiled with a haze of light gold, as it is...
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The Garden-Party. And after all the weather was ideal. They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it. Windless, warm, the sky without a cloud. Only the blue was veiled with a haze of light gold, as it is sometimes in early summer.
‘The Garden Party’ (1920) is probably Katherine Mansfield’s best-known and best-loved story. She never wrote a full-length novel, but – taking her cue from such innovators as Anton Chekhov – made the short story form her own.
Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party” explores themes of maturation and the loss of innocence as its protagonist, Laura, develops an understanding that distinctions of class vanish in the face of human mortality.
