"If you're going to stop a band playing every time some one has an accident, you'll lead a very strenuous life."
- Katherine Mansfield, "The Garden Party"
- Katherine Mansfield, "The Garden Party"
曼殊裴兒小說集 徐志摩 著/譯 (1927)
園會： 要是每次有人碰著了意外，你的音樂隊就得停下來，你的一輩子也就夠受了。
曼斯菲爾德《園會》文潔若等多人合譯，北京：人民文學出版社，2006
"要是每回出事你都要取消樂隊，你的生活就太緊張了。" 頁159
Katherine Mansfield ：徐志摩：《曼殊裴兒小說集》；《哀曼殊裴兒》。曼斯菲爾德《園會》
http://hcbooks.blogspot.tw/2016/03/katherine-mansfield.html
"If you're going to stop a band playing every time some one has an accident, you'll lead a very strenuous life."
- Katherine Mansfield, "The Garden Party"
- Katherine Mansfield, "The Garden Party"
An afternoon at the Sheridans' garden party will be perfect. Darling Laura is doing a marvelous job negotiating with the band, workmen, cook, and florist who appears with an unexpected delivery, all without her mother’s help. But, distressing news reaches the house just before lunch about a young man from down the lane , and suddenly Laura can’t imagine proceeding with the party.
From Katherine Mansfield, one of the most talented and pioneering masters of the short story in English, of whom Virginia Woolf once wrote: “I was jealous of her writing—the only writing I have ever been jealous of,” “The Garden Party” is an exquisite paragon of the form. #ShortStoryMonth
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*****梁永安先生
每人有死掉便取消派對
*****梁永安先生
每人有死掉便取消派對
What is the relationship between Laura and Jose in "The Garden Party"?
Laura is presented very differently from her older and more experienced sister Jose. At the start of the story, Laura considers class distinctions to be "asburd" and says that they do not matter to her, "not a bit, not an atom..." Likewise Laura is presented as naive and innocent, unsure of how to handle the men who come to put up the marquee. In contrast, Jose, we are told, has no lack of confidence when it comes to the servants:
Jose loved giving orders to the servants and they loved obeying her. She always made them feel they were taking part in some drama.
Clearly, however, the biggest difference comes in the different reactions to the news of the death of Mr. Scott. Laura feels that the party must be cancelled straight away, considering how terrible it would be for the family to hear the music of the band they had hired in their grief. The harder, older Jose, on the other hand, takes a more pragmatic view:
"If you're going to stop a band playing every time someone has an accident, you'll lead a very strenuous life. I'm every bit as sorry about it as you. I feel just as sympathetic." Her eyes hardened. She looked at her sister just as she used to when they were little and fighting together. "You won't bring a drunken workman back to life by being sentimental," she said softly.
This, then, is perhaps the key difference between the two sisters. Jose is shown as a character who already knows her place in the world and the place occupied by others. Laura still has not yet learned the class consciousness that her sister exhibits. Jose assumes that Mr. Scott died through being drunk, even though no reference was made to this at all. Laura, still focussing on the tragedy of the event, wants to cancel the party as an act of sympathy, but finds no support from her sister and mother.
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