Literary Analysis Of Katherine Mansfield's The Garden Party

Ever wondered why some objects get chosen more than others, and then they are just forgotten to be left for dead by some other object of value? Well, in the short story of “The Garden Party” by Katherine Mansfield, the overall moral of the story was to convince the reader that most people belong in their own social class or classes. Mansfield really wanted to portray that the rich would stay rich and the poor would remain poor by mocking the other workers who work within the garden. Mansfield also uses Laurie’s mother to describe why you can never be equal with a lower class man or woman, and what effects it may have on the upper class. Once again, the message that Mansfield wanted to depict about how life would go on without a specific person or persons (a character named Scott in this case), and talk about people who contribute to help a society, but nobody will really care or pay attention to what anyone will accomplish. Humans, as a whole, will just move on and forget about it. As humans, all of us will die. That is apart of life. All of us will die within our social class for generations to come, there is just no way out of it. This is clearly shown through the literary device of flowers and

“He was given up to his dream. What did garden-parties and baskets and lace frocks matter to him? He was far from all those things. He was wonderful, beautiful.” (Mansfield 264) Inside this quote, it explains Laurie’s deposition between being in love with a lower class man and her being grateful that she is within the upper class community. She values life as a gift and everyone is likely stuck with the life they live forever, without any hope of escape. She recognizes that she can not date a lower class man, Laurie wakes up to reality and says, ‘You just have to learn how to live with it and move