Literary Analysis: The Dinner Party By Mona Gardner
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Literary Analysis: The Dinner Party The author, Mona Gardner, uses the characters in the story, “The Dinner Party” to express the message that you should not think of all people as the same, and, in this instance, that women are braver than most people think. This is set up through dialogue between characters and important events that relate to the characters, At the beginning of the story, the guests are all seated at a table having dinner. There is a discussion that women have “outgrown the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse era”, as said by a young girl, and the colonel who disagrees. (Gardner 2 & 3). This is important to the story because it sets up what will happen later on and gives an important reason for it to happen, and