In the canon
The Garden Party
- Form
- Form Short Story
- Year
- Year 1922
- Pages
- Pages 22
The weather is ideal, and Katherine Mansfield wants you to feel every inch of it: a cloudless morning, roses that seem to know they are the only flowers that impress people at garden parties, workmen arriving with canvas on their backs. Laura Sheridan goes out to show them where the marquee should stand, still holding her bread-and-butter, and falls half in love with their easy kindness, wishing she had workmen for friends instead of the silly boys she dances with.
And after all the weather was ideal.
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