| 词条 | Her First Ball |
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"Her First Ball" is a 1921 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in The Sphere on 28 November 1921, and later reprinted in The Garden Party and Other Stories.[1] Plot summaryA young girl called Leila has come to the city to stay with her cousins. They are going to a ball. Leila is very excited: this is her first ball. Once there, she is both excited and terrified. After dancing with several young boys her own age, she danced with a wrinkly balding man who has been coming to balls for a while. This spoils her mood until she dances with a good looking young gentleman where her worries disappear. Characters
Literary significanceThe text is written in the modernist mode, without a set structure, and with many shifts in the narrative. The main themes of the story are very dramatically portrayed through Leila's reactions and her emotions. Footnotes1. ^Katherine Mansfield, Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics, explanatory notes {{Katherine Mansfield}}[2]muiz khan2. ^kathreina External links
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