Episode 284: Best of – "The Garden Party" by Katherine Mansfield

<p>This week on The Literary Life, we bring you an episode from deep in the archives in which Cindy and Angelina discussed Katherine Mansfield's short story "<a href= "https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1429/1429-h/1429-h.htm">The Garden Party</a>." After a great chat over their commonplace quotes, Angelina and Cindy dig into this week's story. They start with how Cindy found this story and the connections she was making to <em><a href="https://amzn.to/4ntuNUU">Little Women</a></em>. Angelina gives a brief biographical sketch of Katherine Mansfield and highlights how Mansfield's own illness and death give us insight into how she deals with death in this story. Angelina walks us through how she looks at the use of figurative language and images, such as the Garden of Eden. They also touch on "The Garden Party" having the same structure of moving toward a moment of epiphany that we saw in "<a href= "https://www.theliterary.life/229-2/">Araby</a>." </p> <p>Cindy brings up the disconnect betw...