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Reflecting on the Dead. Reflecting on the Dead In Katherine Mansfield's "The
Garden Party" and in DH Lawrence's "Odour of Chrysanthemums ...
... with the line “Do you ever think of yourself as actually dead…in a ... poetic language
to colloquialism creates a new form of communication reflecting that the ...
... The walls show the reflection of the person viewing the names of the dead,
in way reflecting themselves in the light of the dead. ...
... to subconsciously make a decision without being objective and reflecting upon whether ...
Because of the abundance of dead objects (possession, property, or living ...
... did his father and his mother sleep beneath the pall of smoke reflecting orange
and ... of him was filled with little fires but the horse was not dead." This shows ...
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Reflecting on the Dead
In Katherine Mansfield's "The Garden Party" and in D.H. Lawrence's "Odour of Chrysanthemums," two women were in a situation where death was literally at their feet. In "The Garden Party," Laura finds herself contemplating the dead body of Mr. Scott, a man of lower class who lived at the bottom of the hill from her house. In "Odour of Chrysanthemums," Elizabeth finds herself contemplating the dead body of her husband, Walter. Although the relationships these women shared with the dead men were completely opposite, they both had striking similarities in the ways that they handled the situation. Both women ignored the feelings of the families of the deceased, failed to refer to the deceased by name, felt shame in the presence of the deceased and both had a life and death epiphany. Although Laura and Elizabeth were in two similar yet very different situations, they both had contemplated the dead men, acted in similar ways, felt similar emotions and both ended up having an epiphany regarding life and death at the end of the story.
No real concern was shown in either story for family members of the dead. In fact the only concern shown by Laura and Elizabeth was only concern for themselves. In "The Garden Party," Laura did not once show any consideration for Mr. Scott's family. Even in the presence of the widow and her sister, Laura never mentioned anything about feeling sorry for them about their loss. The most concern shown for Mr. Scott's family was before a party that her family was throwing when she questioned, "what the band would sound like to that poor woman" (Mansfield 2429). Laura also never showed concern for Mr. Scott's children. Her reference to Mr. Scott's wife and children as the "poor woman and those little children" (Mansfield 2430), was the only sympathy the widow and her family received from her. Laura seemed only concerned with how "terribly nervous" she was and that she was being watched...
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