What Message Do You Believe 'The Dinner Party'

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What message do you believe “The Dinner Party” expresses? Well, the main message that I believe this story shows is equality. You, my friends, and my teacher may all have a different thought on this story but equality was my final opinion. This was expressed by the colonel and Mrs. Wynes mainly.There are a couple of different reasons I had actually come up with this thought which will be explained. This brings me to my first paragraph. First of all, I thought of equality because in the passage it states “ A spirited discussion springs up between a young girl who insists that women have outgrown the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse era and a colonel who says that they haven’t” This girl was able to raise her thoughts and

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