Download full story at: http://store.payloadz.com/details/detail_737080.html The mother in Katherine Mansfields famous short story The Garden Party, published in 1921 and printed below, behaves like [...]

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The mother in Katherine Mansfields famous short story The Garden Party, published in 1921 and printed below, behaves like a child. Throughout this fierce critique of middle-class ruthlessness, the apparently charming retreat into childish insouciance, made by almost all the characters, is portrayed as a grotesque cover for their brutality, though never satirised beyond the bounds of realism.

My dear child, its no use asking me Forget I am your mother, the mother says, when asked for help in organising a garden party to take place in the evening. Later she says: My darling child, you wouldnt like a logical mother would you? Not only the mother, but the sisters of the storys young heroine Laura are utterly self-absorbed, refusing to take anything seriously except themselves: