My thoughts about the Garden Party

The main content of the novel “the Garden Party” is about the tragic death of a poor neighbor of Mrs. Xie due to a accidental accident, and the family of the deceased is weeping and grieving, while she plays music in the garden and entertains the guests. The short story "the Garden Party" is like a photograph that captures a moment in the lives of people and seals that memory forever. There they are, or smiling, or frowning, or sad, or happy, or serious, or surprised... Behind this smile and frown are all the experiences of life, where are fears and joys, but also hopes and dreams. These sharp and elegant stories show us ordinary life, and the trivial and insignificant little things that make up the life of ordinary people. These include a garden party and a death, a desperate search for a job, a lonely train journey across Europe, and an encounter with a woman who hides a dangerous secret. What’s more, there are also unsympathetic children, how young girls feel when they go to dance for the first time, the thoughts of a hostess's personal maid, and the story of a woman on a remote farm in New Zealand. The theme of the novel is the Garden Party, however, the Garden Party is not described throughout the story. Regarding the process of the garden party, the novel does not describe it, but only a passing mention, and the author more writes about the contrast between the two families by preparing for the garden party. The character of Laura is a very simple character, and many of her ideas are similar to what we think today: always looking at the world with a very simple, very compassionate concept. Nevertheless, the rest of the family is much more mature than her, they are used to the world, to their own lives. For example, after the garden party, there was a lot of food left, and at this time the rest of the family thought that in order to show the family's sympathy for others, these leftovers should be sent to the poor house as a sign of condolences. However, at this time, Laura raised another objection that she thought it would be disrespectful to send these scraps to the homes of the poor. But the rest of the family disagreed. In the end, Laura went anyway. In the poor house, she witnessed the poverty of the family and felt their sorrow. Therefore, at the end, when Laura's brother came to pick up Laura, Laura suddenly had some feelings about life which she couldn't express it clearly, but her brother understood, and the novel came to an abrupt end. All in all, if I were to answer the question that the author leaves the reader at the end of the novel: what exactly is Laura trying to say, and what does she know about life? To this question, I hold the view that my answer should be: life is like this, everyone's life is hugely different; life is like this, full of unexpected sadness.