A review by mintomillk
The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

4.0

4 stars. Mansfield is often overlooked due to the sheer volume of brilliant writers writing around the same time as her -- Lawrence, Woolf, Kafka; the modernist movement is one of my favourite time periods simply due to the amount of fantastic work that has come out during then. it is a shame, then, that Katherine Mansfield is sometimes overlooked due to the fact she primarily wrote shorter, half-developed pieces that have more to do with capturing a single fleeting moment in time, expressing a single artistic thought, than any complete telling of an event in its entirety that even the stream-of-consciousness modernists like Woolf had mastered during their time. regardless, her work is insightfully human and consequently haunting, where the conclusion of a short story stays with you afterwards as a reminder of its impact. The Garden Party is one of my favourite short stories due to its ability to capture human suffering and move on quickly simultaneously, in the true spirit of the modernists.