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In "The Garden-Party", Mansfield challenges general assumptions of social classes by showing that there could be redeeming features among the working class as well as less-than-desirable traits in the upper class. To what extent do you agree?
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In "The Garden-Party", Mansfield challenges general assumptions of social classes by showing that there could be redeeming features among the working class as well as less-than-desirable traits in the upper class. To what extent do you agree? To be able to understand Mansfield's work, we have to understand the time in which her work was published. "The Garden-Party" was published at a time when modern-prose was developing and becoming popular. Modern prose was generally aimed at challenging and rebelling against the very shallow and narrow-minded society which existed by speaking of things that were considered taboo. There was a great difference between the upper and lower classes at this time. I do agree that this story challenges general assumptions of social classes which existed the time This story is aimed at scrutinizing and exposing the upper classes through comparing them with the lower classes whose qualities are revealed. From the start,...
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