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PROMPT: Relate some aspect of the Preface reading on modernism to Katherine Mansfield The Garden Party, paying attention to the way the short story formally engages some of the main questions posed by the reading.

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In the preface text it says, …the literature that acknowledged and attempted to respond to a crisis of representation beginning in the mid-nineteenth century. Which I think comes close to what I think of what modernism is as well. Especially relating it to The Garden Party there’s the death of a man and the class difference between people. It doesnt specifically talk about it but you can assume and while reading you can see what the author intended with their work, it much is to respond to what was going on during that time. Theres also the interesting way that Kathrine Mansfield is narrating in the third person but the more you read, we dont know whether the narrator is talking or it is the view of Laura the main character. We have Laura’s fragmented self, in the preface it talks about how reality actually is and not how it was represented traditionally, its relatable because Laura is an inexperienced girl and doesnt know the world well. We see through her eyes and the narrators, she goes through different emotions and realizations of everything around her. Another topic in the preface talks about art and the avant garde of it all and how all the modernist authors used avant garde as well. Kathrine Mansfield used avant garde in The Garden Party since all of ..