ENG 3320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Status Quo, Male Privilege, Joses
9 Apr 2017
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March 24, 2017 joyce continued and mansfield. Have to be sympathetic and aware: brings same kinds of ideas as the sisters , broad but narrows, pace quickens, he does not really know his wife. Mansfield"s the garden party : death impinging on life the one inevitability is death, sympathy with underdog, psych study, filtered through laura"s consciousness, different plains of meaning. Kind of anti-type laura: bought into upper-middle class good life , mrs. s looks like caricature, but knows what"s going on, suspect meg and hose bough into mother"s way, even creampuffs are bird-like, creampuffs make them children again. Child-like reaction: working class comes to her. Real world comes to the party: possibilities of life (garden) didn"t suggest death, death outside, stops everything for laura. Party and death can"t co-exist: let go of adulthood, not ready for that yet, 2587 descent into hell imagery (1st paragraph, contrast, not birds, but cages.
