The Garden Party
by Katherine Mansfield

The Garden Party: Style 1 key example

Style
Explanation and Analysis:

“The Garden Party” is written from a third-person omniscient point of view, meaning the story’s narrator is separate from the protagonist, Laura, but has access to her thoughts. Mansfield uses the technique of free indirect speech (in which Laura and the narrator’s voices seem to merge) throughout the story to give the reader access to Laura’s inner thoughts and emotions.