character sketch of laura the garden party
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The story's curious and free-spirited protagonist, Laura is Mr. and Mrs. Sheridan's teenage daughter and sister to Laurie, Jose and Meg. As she begins to come of age, Laura starts to realize the pitfalls of her privileged upbringing, especially the restrictions it places on socializing.
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The story’s curious and free-spirited protagonist, Laura is Mr. and Mrs. Sheridan’s teenage daughter and sister to Laurie, Jose and Meg. As she begins to come of age, Laura starts to realize the pitfalls of her privileged upbringing, especially the restrictions it places on socializing. She is disappointed, for example, by the “silly boys” courting her rather than “extraordinarily nice” men from the lower classes, like the workmen who put up the marquee. Laura’s mother calls her “the artistic one” and sends her to do various odd jobs in preparation for the garden party that afternoon, but as Laura increasingly realizes that working-class people in her community must work tirelessly and endure poverty in order for her family to maintain their extravagant lifestyle, she becomes increasingly torn between the leisurely gentility of her upbringing and her sympathy for the workers her parents and siblings barely acknowledge. When Laura overhears that Scott has died in a horrible accident, she urges the rest of her family to cancel the party, but her protests fall on deaf ears and she decides to go on with the party once she sees herself in the mirror wearing her mother’s extravagant daisy-trim hat. Later, Laura’s mother sends her to deliver a basket of leftover food to the cart-driver’s family. When she arrives, Laura is unsettled by the cottages’ squalid conditions and overwhelmed with anxiety about her own wealth, especially the hat and clothes that make her class status obvious. Upon seeing Scott’s body, Laura has an epiphany about life, death, wealth and poverty (although the reader never quite learns what exactly she has figured out).
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