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篇一：品牌简介-TheGardenParty

品牌名称：the garden party（简称TGP）

品牌故事：仲夏之时，一群充满希望·梦想·力量·话题，和多元化的年轻人开创了自己的原创设计师品牌。品牌命名为The garden party,我们唤之TGP。TGP尊重每个人的个体特制，以设计衬托出穿着者原有潜在的个性，回归自然本源。自然的材质·简洁时尚的造型和独特的个人气质是TGP风格所在。

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品牌理念：The Garden Party所推崇的是一种提倡简约自然舒适的生活态度，一种健康的生活理念，将内在精神和自然融合一起，提升成为一个独立自由的品牌文化。我们在一片倒立着的城市里，或多或少都迷失了一些最原始的形态。其中一些些细小的事物，对我们有时却是砰然一击：一个原汁原味的笔记本子；一条麻质的连衣裙；一件纯棉宽松的白衬衫；一段关于自然和自由的旅途故事。The Garden Party所追求的就是这种在细微生活中，将简约自然舒适的生活态度进行到底，回归本源，虽然是短短的只字片语，却是凝聚了我们所有人的梦想和追求。

设计理念：从最原始本源的自然提取灵感来源，植物脉络、光影、海洋、花的绽放、风的轻柔等都成为设计师的灵感源之一，最简约的设计手法，还原自然本源的特性，更注重精神、文化艺术的碰撞，从而打造自然舒适的设计理念和品牌理念。

顾客群像：像是一个花园里的群体，我们的目的只为精心打造一场自然放松的party。你们是独特自主的，或是追求恬静惬意的，或是向往自由艺术的，或是渴望自然清新的……都可以在这里绽放你的心情。The Garden Party觉得，每个人都是独特的自己，即使是一款普通的白色衬衫，不同的人也能穿出不同的风格，所以它不限制年龄，力求在简洁自然中融合独特的个人风格。

制作选材：延续自然环保的品牌理念，TGP选择不同国家的材质面料——有机棉、天然麻、丝质和雪纺等。

品牌标语：绽放你的心情

篇二：关于the Garden Party的问题

I choose a story by Katherine Mansfield as an example of short stories because she was so good at her craft. When she describes a character, you can see the person at once. When she describes a setting, you are instantly there. When she tells you how someone feels, you recognize the feeling immediately, understand it, and make it your own. "The Garden Party" is one of Mansfield's best stories and is often considered a perfect example of the technique of short-story writing.

As a master of the short story form, Katherine Mansfield could compress more meaning and feeling into a single sentence than most authors can manage in a dozen paragraphs. Her paragraphs accomplish what chapters do for others. "The Garden Party" is the length of only a short chapter in a novel, yet she crowds into it volumes about the feelings of a teenage girl as she becomes aware of social differences among people.

As freshmen of Non-English-Majors, you may come across a number of unfamiliar words and sentences. Read the story carefully, three times, at least, using the skills that you've acquired from Reader's Choice of guessing the meaning of words and sentences, and you will understand and enjoy this story.

What you are required to do is as follows:

1. Which person can you see? What kind of setting is it in "The Garden Party"? What feelings do you experience? Write down at least two sentences that describe respectively the persons, settings and feelings impressive for you, followed by your brief interpretation of what each sentence describes.

2. Answer the following questions:

A. What is this short story about? (3-4 sentences )

B. An American historian reported the following incident. At the end of the last century a mine owner was told that his miners (poor immigrant laborers) were suffering under horrible working conditions. Said the mine owner, "People like that don't suffer. Why, they can't even speak English!" Can you find this attitude in the story? Explain your opinion using quotations from the story if possible. How does this attitude still exist in the world today?

C. Will Laura grow up to be just like her mother, or will she be different? Explain your opinion using quotations from the story if possible.

篇三：Symbolism in The Garden Party

Symbolism in The Garden Party

Katherine Mansfield is an outstanding story writer in modern English literature. The Garden Party is one of her famous short stories. The story is mainly about Laura, who gains an epiphany about life through the death of a carter nearby. Greatly influenced by symbolist theory, Katherine Mansfield uses symbolism widely in The Garden Party. These symbolic images are abundant, such as the garden, the lilies, Laura?s hat and so on. They are used to reveal the mystery of different characters? inner world and strengthen the theme.

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In the beginning of the story, Mansfield shows readers the inside of the garden. There are green lawns, daisy plants, roses and trees in it. The beautiful scenery naturally makes us associate the garden with the garden of Eden, which is a delightful place, a paradise or a symbol of fertility. Besides, the garden with beautiful flowers and ornament shrubs actually symbolizes the paradise of wealthy people. Lastly, the garden symbolizes Laura?s living environment, which is full of happiness but lacks reference to reality. Although Laura enjoys the happiness and easiness of the artificial world around her, she has to face the real world. The death of a carter nearby makes her pay attention to the poor?s world. We can see the description of the poor?s living environment in the story, “they were little meaning dwellings painted a chocolate brown. In the garden patches there was nothing but cabbage stalks, sick hens and tomato cans.”(96) This poor area symbolizes a world which is totally different from Laura?s.

Lilies are also important symbolic images in The Garden Party. They are mentioned several times throughout the story. What impresses readers deeply maybe canna lilies. “There, just inside the door, stood a wide, shallow tray full of pots of lilies. No other kind. Nothing but lilies---canna lilies, big pink flowers, wide open, radiant, almost frightening alive on bright crimson stems.” (35) Canna lilies symbolize wealthy people like Laura?s family, while the arum lilies are a symbol of poor people like the carter. When Laura sees canna lilies ordered by her mother, “ She crouched down as if to warm herself at that blaze of lilies; she felt they were in her

finger, on her lips, growing in her breast.”(36) Laura has a strange feeling of being swallowed by flowers. Her strange feeling symbolizes the fact that the artificial world is an inseparate part of her. Lilies are mentioned again. When Mrs. Sheridan sends Laura to send leftovers of their party to the widow, she asks Laura to take the lilies to “that poor creature” too. It is mentioned that the arum lilies are a symbol of poor people. Mrs. Sheridan thinks arum lilies are inferior to canna lilies and they are suitable for those poor people.

What?s more, Laura?s hat in The Garden Party also hold profound symbolic meaning. It reveals Laura?s inner world. In the beginning, Laura?s hat is a symbol of vanity and shallowness. Laura must wear it as it is an necessary accessory. However, it becomes a symbol of penitence later. Looing at the dead young man, Laura sobs, “Forgive my hat.” (Katherine Mansfield, 2002: 54) She then wears it home as she has done all afternoon. In a moral sense, the hat is the vehicle that has carried Laura from heedless girlhood to maturity. Her vague artistic sensibility turn to true humanity.

Most important of all, Laura?s luxurious hat plays a very important role in opening out Laura?s thoughts. This story also touches upon Laura?s feeling towards the family members, especially when there is a conflict. Using the hat as a symbol, Mansfield shows to the reader the subtle change in the character?s heart through Laura?s attitude towards the hat. Hearing a carter nearby is dead accidentally, Laura tries to persuade her mother to cancel the party. Mrs. Sheridan tries to divert Laura?s attention by a beautiful hat on her head but fails. Laura refuses to see it in her mother?s hand-mirror. However, when by chance she sees herself in the mirror as a charming girl with the beautiful hat, “Never had she imagined she could look like that” She hopes her mother is right and herself extravagant. She is experiencing an inner conflict---to insist on her own idea or follow her mother?s thought. She plans to consult Laurie to find the true answer. However, the hat made her change her own mind for the second time. When Laurie sees Laura with that hat, he “suddenly puffed out his cheeks and goggled his eyes at her. ?My word, Laura! You do look stunning,? said Laurie, ?What an absolutely topping hat!?? Laurie?s praise of the hat makes Laura totally surrender. Although she notices that there is something wrong, she yields and

chooses to follow her mother?s view. When Laura enters the poverty-stricken neighborhood she feels awkward and unsuitable. There is a great contrast between her gorgeous clothes and hat and the dowdy wearing of the poor. “She wished now she had put on a coat. How her frock shone! And the big hat with the velvet streamer—if only it was another hat!” Therefore when she faces people here, she intentionally tossed the velvet ribbon over her shoulder so that her beautiful hat would not appear so conspicuous. When Laura is confronted with the dead man she apologizes for her hat. She has acquired a new consciousness which she could not tell clearly. She views life perfect and satisfactory just as her hat, but now she is closer to reality.

Katherine Mansfield uses many symbolic images in The Garden Party. These symbols not only play important roles in the story but also have many effects, such as conveying abstract state of mind or feeling; revealing the characters? psychological activities; strengthening the theme. Through analyzing abundant use of symbolism, the author wants to help readers understand this short story better.

篇四：The Garden Party criticism(irony)

The Garden Party | Irony in "The Garden Party"

In the following essay, Ben Satterfield discusses the importance of irony in "The Garden Party." All of the writing on Katherine Mansfield's most anthologized story recognizes or implies that "The Garden Party" is a fable of initiation. The general interpretation argues that Laura goes from her Edenic world to one in which death exists, and that archetypically she loses her innocence, thereby acquiring knowledge and reaching a point of initiation. Laura has a great discovery, true; but because of her inability to make any kind of statement about it that would serve to clarify its meaning, critics disagree on whether she will go on to learn more about life and death or whether she will retreat into the sanctuary of the garden world. Much of the

disagreement can be resolved, I believe, by a close examination of the irony—which has been largely ignored—and the function and effect of that irony upon the events of the story. Also, "The Garden Party" contains two types of initiation, a fact mostly overlooked, and the initiations are not compatible, as the details of the story make evident.

Irony is the keynote. The central character of "The Garden Party," Laura Sheridan, is protected from the exigencies of life and is unable to view reality (even death) except through the rose-tinted glasses provided by a delicate and insulated existence. Laura's world is a world of parties and flowers, a pristine world of radiant, bright canna lilies and roses, a precious and exclusive world. Laura's sister, Jose, is early described as a butterfly—and what creature is more delicate than a butterfly? That Jose chooses to sing a song about a weary life, obviously something she is unacquainted with, has to be ironic: in the Sheridan family, weariness and sorrow are merely lyrics to be mocked.

Mansfield's exquisite use of imagery is as telling as her irony. For example, the flower imagery throughout the story serves to keep the reader reminded of the delicacy of Laura's world. The flowers are splendid, beautiful, and—what is not stated—short-lived. Laura, too, is beautiful, radiant, flower-like. But even the afternoon is likened to a flower: "And the perfect afternoon slowly ripened, slowly faded, slowly its petals closed." Laura, her vision attuned to the

superficial, can see only the beauty and not the dying of the flower, and she cannot see that, in many ways, she is very much like a flower herself.

The symbolism of Laura's hat as well as her name (from laurel, the victory crown) is apparent. Marvin Magalaner adroitly sums up the significance of both: "When the mother thus presents her daughter with her own party hat in typical coronation fashion, she is symbolically transferring to Laura the Sheridan heritage of snobbery, restricted social views, narrowness of vision—the garden party syndrome." Surely this is the case, although Laura may not be aware of it. Hence here is an initiation that is true and subtle.

But the strong irony of this story results from the contrast between the way Laura sees herself and the way the reader is led to see her. Laura has very little—if any—insight, a fact made manifest throughout "The Garden Party." Her dealings with the workmen illustrate her lack of

awareness: she sees them as "extraordinarily nice,'' apparently not realizing that their "niceness"

is more than likely due to their roles as subordinates, mere hirelings. Laura does not even seem to realize that what to her is a delightful party is simply toil to the workmen. Self-absorbed and narcissistic, she takes the superficial at face value because both she and her perceptions lack

depth. "She felt just like a work-girl" is stingingly ironic because the reader knows that Laura has absolutely no concept of the life of a work-girl, just as she has no idea of what lies behind the friendly veneer of the workmen. For her to imagine that she would "get on much better with men like these" rather than the "silly boys" who come to her parties is an indication of how little general comprehension and self-understanding she possesses.

The other obvious contrast in the story is between the gaiety on the top of the hill and the sorrow below. The death of a man intrudes upon Laura's affected sensibilities and she discusses the

possibility of canceling the party, but, as we suspected, her conscience is easily assuaged (and by the symbolic hat, a distraction that serves to fix Laura permanently in her world). Nothing, positively nothing, is permitted to spoil the party; even the weather is described as "ideal"—a "perfect day for a garden-party."

In the Sheridan world, suffering and misery cannot take precedence over well-ordered but mundane social functions, and will not be allowed to interfere. Consequently, Laura, with

uncommon self-centeredness, blots out the death of a common man until a more convenient time: "I'll remember it again after the party's over, she decided." But even then, for her to realize that she is actually going to the house of the dead man is difficult because "kisses, voices, tinkling spoons, laughter, the smell of crushed grass were somehow inside her. She had no room for anything else." Unmistakably she has room for little else than parties, and the closer she comes to the house of the dead man the more she realizes her mistake, for here is a reality she does not want to face: it is so much easier to commiserate from the top of the hill—and then to go on with one's fun. When she actually views the dead man, she can see him only as she sees death, as something remote, far, far away. (In addition, she has no more understanding of why she is there than does the dead man's wife.) Death is so removed from Laura's insular life that it is unreal; it cannot really be experienced, much less coped with, so she sees it as she sees everything else, as something marvelous and beautiful. Just as Laura is unable to pierce the facade of the workmen, she is equally unable to see beyond the face of death, the stark reality of which is transformed into dream, and she sees the dead man as sleeping, happy, content.

Any initiation into the mystery of life and death is incomplete, whereas the installation of Laura into the Sheridan tradition is certain. That could present two types of

initiation, one profound and the other shallow, is a tribute to her consummate skill: the fact that the protagonist opts for the shallow in no way detracts from her art but serves to increase the poignancy of her tale and to mark its realism.

Laura is not without sensitivity, but her sensitivity is subordinated to the comforts and trappings of the Sheridan way of life. She is young and inexperienced, and she has been shielded from the harsher aspects of existence. Even after facing the reality of death, however, she is unable to view it realistically and transforms it into a dream, into something wonderful and happy, something that will fit into the tableau of her resplendent world. The ironic tone has been too clearly established for the reader to take Laura's encounter as profoundly affecting. In this regard,

"The Garden Party" asserts itself as not just another story of the loss of innocence, but an alteration of a mythic pattern.

The intimations of mortality are only vaguely perceived, and the story closes on a final note of irony: Laura apparently thinks that she has discovered something new about life, not an awesome truth, but something deep and ineffable, something she attempts to explain to her brother, but cannot. Unlike the emperor Augustus, who would sometimes say to his Senate, "Words fail me, my Lords; nothing I can utter could possibly indicate the depth of my feelings," Laura seems more confused than moved, and her inability to articulate her feelings to her brother is a result of her failure to understand, her inability to grasp the full significance of what she has witnessed. "No matter. He quite understood." That is, he understood as much as Laura. They both will in all likelihood remain in the refuge of their bright house on the hill and continue giving expensive, gay parties and toying with the surface of things until the petals of their own lives are closed. Source: Ben Satterfield, "Irony in 'The Garden Party,'" in Ball State University Forum, Vol. XXIII, No. 1, Winter, 1982, pp. 68-70.

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篇五：the garden party

Face the poverty gap correctly

After I had finished reading the story called ,I thought a lot.With the advent of modernization,a hot controversy about poverty gap has started.Some holds the statement that it is an inevitable issue which is brought by modern society,we can ignore it and the girl overacted.However,I strongly oppose that opinion and claim that the lovely girl in the story should be told to be more and more considerate. Now,let’s share the story together.

Our protagonist,whose name is Laura,was asked to devote herself on supervising the workers to put up the marquee.Laura was a little afraid at first and tried to look at the workman with a serious face and trying to pretend to be a business-girl.After the conversation,Laura was impressed by the friendly worker and she started tending to make friends with such workers rather than the silly boys whom she had ever danced with.Then,the worker cast her a choice:whether the marquee should be put upon the tree or not?In my point of view,the tree with a number of decorations is Laura’s past,which is disgusted by her.Meanwhile,the marquee is the life,which is really longed for by her and she will cherish it.In general,the lovely girl in our story,finally chose to put the marquee up on the tree.

Before the party has started,another issue was heard by Laura:a man who was working for her family died.Laura was shocked and rushed to her brother and mother for stopping the garden party,however,she was refused,because they thought the poor’s life is none of their business.Laura was a little angry and sad,but cannot do anything.After the party has finished,Laura wanna send a basket which was filled with delicious bread to the dead man’s family.Comparing with herself,she felt the family’s extremely poor and miserable,she was shocked and then cried.She thought the world shouldn’t be the view she was seeing,however,her family members all hold the idea that she overacted.At that time,Laura was confused by the world.

In the light of above,actions speak louder than words.Remember, beauty,unaccompanied by virtue,is as a flower without perfume.We should make our offspring to be more considerate and really by telling them how to understand and respect others,especially how to treat the poor. Only in this way can they face the poverty gap correctly.Please don’t convert Laura’s spirit to cold!

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