The Garden Party from Katherine Mansfield

As i said before, Eng course in SU helped me to find a new interest area. This area is "Trying to read short stories wihout saying "So what?" , trying to understand them and enjoy" (in detailed way ^^^). Yesterday i have read The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield. There is short information about te author;

• Born in New Zealand, moved to London when she was 15.

• Modernist writer of short fiction.

• Other well-known stories; The Daughters of the Late Colonel ,The Fly

• Unfortunately died early; when she was 34 from tuberculosis

Story begins with a scene of a rush caused by a party which organized by wealthy family. I don't want to write the rest of the story because i thought maybe you want to read it.

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My opinions about the story,

Although i sometimes forgot because of the rush caused by regular life i am being adrifted and thinking like the television, common newspaper, in other words thinking in a way which i am expected, i frequently realize that our bones even will not exist 100 years later. So people will only remember us with what we have created in our life, or another option, no one will remember... And then i am giving up all the complex, little problems...

In this story, when Laura visits the poor family and saw the dead body, she is trying to say something;

"Isn't life," she stammered, "isn't life--" But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He quite understood.

So if i were Laura, i would say,

Isn't life is so short to be obsessed for little things like social statue of yourself, how much GPA have you done, how many stylish clothes you have etc.

So, how would you complete this sentence? ;)

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