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Compose a 1500 words assignment on rationality vs. irrationality in the garden party by katherine mansfield and kew gardens by virginia woolf. Needs to be plagiarism free! Out of this general confusion of ideas, there was a large concentration on the concepts of rationality versus irrationality. For many people, rationality was the only way by which one might arrive at the truth, through a careful and thorough examination of the physical evidence placed before one. For others, the truth could only be found by allowing one to open one’s mind to the greater possibilities and transcendental understandings that were associated more within the arena of emotions, feelings or intuitions. Katherine Mansfield presents the first of these approaches in her short story “The Garden Party” while Virginia Woolf attempts to remove the separation between rationality and irrationality, arguing that the two exist side by side, in her short story “Kew Gardens.”&nbsp.

In “The Garden Party”, Katherine Mansfield tells the story of a young girl as she helps her family prepare for a special garden party. The reason for the party is never given although the details include the placement of a marquee, a tremendous number of lilies and a band of musicians and a hint is provided that perhaps it is a yearly event as Laura’s mother tells her, “I’m determined to leave everything to you children this year” (Mansfield 59). These details reveal elements of the irrational as the lavish party is held within sight and sound of a poor section of town in which the people were mourning the death of a young father. This irrationality is brought into ever clearer focus as the older girls are engaged in activities designed to make them look nice while Laura, presumably younger, is sent out to cope with the party details. “Meg could not possibly go and supervise the men. She had washed her hair before breakfast, and she sat drinking her coffee in a green turban, with a dark wet curl stamped on each cheek. Jose, the butterfly, always came down in a silk petticoat and a kimono jacket”.