The Ways in Which Mansfield Presents Leila’s Thoughts and Feelings About the Ball:

Mansfield describes a schoolboyish lady first introduction to society. She describes the young girls emotions and excite workforcet in a mien that submerges the readers in Leilas fantasy homo, with a passel of different feelings and emotions. Mansfield wrote this story with third omniscient person. This gives the reader the opportunity to see and know Leilas feelings, thoughts, the atmosphere, etc. Mansfield illustrated a colourful, rich fairy account as Leilas world. The reader toilette sense how Leilas perception of the b everys seems a dreamlike event.The story begins with a definition of Leilas feelings as it was her first ball. She feels for the most part joy and excited. She feels mostly joy and excited, because for her Every single thing was so new and exciting. withal though the ball has nearly started she was sure She would mark (the ball) for ever. Her desire and impatience to dance is felt when she is in the cab passing by waltzing lamp-posts and houses and fence s, and trees. It creates a psychic image of the cab dancing a waltz with the trees, houses, and fences throughout their journey to the ball.This shows how Leila is wondering how the ball is going to be, and how she timbres forward to it. Mansfield creation of a dream world is revealed in Leilas views of everything. It gives the impression that she look at everything with wide eyes and astonish workforcet. This can be seen in the simple common details, such as trillions tuberoses, Joses long looping of amber, Lauras little dark head. Everything is seen by her as most charming and extraordinary. Yet as she gets to the ball, she becomes highly nervous just still excited, since she has never experienced anything like this.The reader knows it is her first ball, not in effect(p) because of the title, also because of the question of the e Sheridan girls Have you unfeignedly never been to a ball before, Leila? Leilas response is not straight forward, but an excuse, which she said i t softly, opening and shutting her fan. The fact that the follow out is scripted in present continuous shows that the action is happening at that moment and that it is continuous. We can imagine how she is opening, and shutting her fan, continuously, which shows her restiveness.Apparently, Leilas heart is beating fast, this is specially arouse when she tried not to smile in addition much she tried not to care. There was something that promotes this emotion and the reader can locate it at the interpreter where Leila wonders of thoughts about the ball through on the whole unrelated objects, such as the bolster on which her hand rested (which) felt like the sleeve of an unidentified young mans trot. This shows her nervous feeling and how she looks forward to dance at the same time.When they arrive Leila is still nervous which is emphasized by using imagery, A great shakiness jet of gas lighted the ladies room. It couldnt wait it was dancing already. The action of the story sta rts when Leila arrives at the ball. Everything to her is so caperal, as so new. This is emphasized by the exaggerated description of the place, The noise was deafening. (I cant remember the literature effects name. Even though I think it is wrong. ). As we menti mavind before, the simplest thing astonishes her.This time is conveyed by the detailed description of what is happening on the Ladies room. One clear example, is the description of how pitiful girls, fair girls were patting their hair, typing ribbons again, tucking handkerchiefs complicate the fronts of their bodies, smoothing marble-white gloves. And because they were all laughing it seemed to Leila that they were all lovely. The dream-like world idea continues when Leila enters to the drill hall, her excitement and astonishment for everything, made Leila forget to be shy, and also to forget how her nervousness was about to made her not go to the ball.This is showed in a flashback when she was in the middle of dressing ( and) she had sat down on the bed with one skid off and one show one and begged her mother to ring up her cousins and say she couldnt go subsequently all. This whole idea of the fairy- tale world is emphasized with Leilas thoughts How heavenly how simple heavenly Mansfield compares the ball with heaven which shows Leilas perfect and magic view of the ball. The rhetorical questions Leila makes throughout the absolutely story emphasizes her naive and her thrill, Am I mean to have one too? , Why didnt the men begin? What were they waiting for? The harmony starts and Leila dances with 2 different young men. Mansfield uses the dialogue to show Leilas and her partner thoughts. The fact that the partner sounded tired is a way that Mansfield uses to show the reader that Leila is dancing as if there was no tomorrow. Leila does not care answering to the same questions that every partner asked her, for her it was thrilling. Her first ball . She just thinks that the ball is magical, majes tic and beautiful. (Do you think I should put something more in here? The climax occurs when Leila begins to dance with the old pad man. Mansfield description of this man is a rupture in the stereotype of the men that have been dancing with Leila. when Leila compared him with her other partners he looked shabby. This gives the reader a clue that this character is going to go to pieces Leilas magic and beautiful world. The gamey man upset her by revealing the might-be-true fact of what age could do to her. He says long before that youll be sitting up there on the stage, looking on, in you nice black velvet.And these pretty arms will have wrenched into little brusque fat ones, and youll beat time with such a different king of fan-a black bony one. After this eye-opener of what might be her future, the reader can see how Leilas thoughts start to turn into pessimistic and how she questions herself, Was this first ball only the beginning of her last ball, after all? . The falling ac tion occurs when the music seemed to change it sounded sad. Pathetic phantasm is used by Mansfield with the music to represent Leilas mood. Leila goes back in to time when deep inside her a little girl threw her pinafore everyplace her head and sobbed.She has stopped dancing and didnt want to dance more. There are two ways of facing this problem, being pessimistic or optimistic. Suddenly another man asks her to dance with him, and she then has to make a decision. At first Mansfield presents Leilas decision to dance with the young man with curling hair as a matter of politeness (it sounds a little bit strange, but I adoptt know how to say it, una cuestion de educacion), but the magic of the ball makes her forget the whole parley with the old man. So she decided to choose the second one.When she stairs on the dance floor, in one minute, in one turn, her feet glided, glided. The light, the azaleas, the dresses, the pink face, the velvet chairs, all became one beautiful flying u ndulate. Mansfield joins the end with the starting, by the word play of the words wheel and the cab bowled, they bowled,(Im not sure if this makes sense), showing the return of the feelings of happiness and joy. She has forgotten totally the harsh conversation that even when she dances again with the old fat man She didnt even recognise him again. The Ways in Which Mansfield Presents Leilas Thoughts and Feelings About the BallMansfield describes a young lady first introduction to society. She describes the young girls emotions and excitement in a way that submerges the readers in Leilas fantasy world, with a lot of different feelings and emotions. Mansfield wrote this story with third omniscient person. This gives the reader the opportunity to see and know Leilas feelings, thoughts, the atmosphere, etc. Mansfield illustrated a colourful, rich fairy tale as Leilas world. The reader can sense how Leilas perception of the balls seems a dreamlike event.The story begins with a descriptio n of Leilas feelings as it was her first ball. She feels mostly joy and excited. She feels mostly joy and excited, because for her Every single thing was so new and exciting. Even though the ball has nearly started she was sure She would remember (the ball) for ever. Her desire and impatience to dance is felt when she is in the cab passing by waltzing lamp-posts and houses and fences, and trees. It creates a mental image of the cab dancing a waltz with the trees, houses, and fences throughout their journey to the ball.This shows how Leila is wondering how the ball is going to be, and how she looks forward to it. Mansfield creation of a dream world is revealed in Leilas views of everything. It gives the impression that she look at everything with wide eyes and astonishment. This can be seen in the simple common details, such as Megs tuberoses, Joses long loop of amber, Lauras little dark head. Everything is seen by her as most charming and extraordinary. Yet as she gets to the ball, she becomes extremely nervous but still excited, since she has never experienced anything like this.The reader knows it is her first ball, not just because of the title, also because of the question of the e Sheridan girls Have you really never been to a ball before, Leila? Leilas response is not straight forward, but an excuse, which she said it softly, opening and shutting her fan. The fact that the action is written in present continuous shows that the action is happening at that moment and that it is continuous. We can imagine how she is opening, and shutting her fan, continuously, which shows her nervousness.Apparently, Leilas heart is beating fast, this is specially evoke when she tried not to smile too much she tried not to care. There was something that promotes this emotion and the reader can locate it at the part where Leila wonders of thoughts about the ball through completely unrelated objects, such as the bolster on which her hand rested (which) felt like the sleeve of an unknown young mans dress. This shows her nervous feeling and how she looks forward to dance at the same time.When they arrive Leila is still nervous which is emphasized by using imagery, A great quivering jet of gas lighted the ladies room. It couldnt wait it was dancing already. The action of the story starts when Leila arrives at the ball. Everything to her is so magical, as so new. This is emphasized by the exaggerated description of the place, The noise was deafening. (I cant remember the literature effects name. Even though I think it is wrong. ). As we mentioned before, the simplest thing astonishes her.This time is conveyed by the detailed description of what is happening on the Ladies room. One clear example, is the description of how Dark girls, fair girls were patting their hair, typing ribbons again, tucking handkerchiefs down the fronts of their bodies, smoothing marble-white gloves. And because they were all laughing it seemed to Leila that they were all lovely. The dream-like world idea continues when Leila enters to the drill hall, her excitement and astonishment for everything, made Leila forget to be shy, and also to forget how her nervousness was about to made her not go to the ball.This is showed in a flashback when she was in the middle of dressing (and) she had sat down on the bed with one shoe off and one show one and begged her mother to ring up her cousins and say she couldnt go after all. This whole idea of the fairy- tale world is emphasized with Leilas thoughts How heavenly how simple heavenly Mansfield compares the ball with heaven which shows Leilas perfect and magic view of the ball. The rhetorical questions Leila makes throughout the short story emphasizes her naive and her thrill, Am I mean to have one too? , Why didnt the men begin? What were they waiting for? The music starts and Leila dances with two different young men. Mansfield uses the dialogue to show Leilas and her partner thoughts. The fact that the partner sound ed tired is a way that Mansfield uses to show the reader that Leila is dancing as if there was no tomorrow. Leila does not care answering to the same questions that every partner asked her, for her it was thrilling. Her first ball . She just thinks that the ball is magical, majestic and beautiful. (Do you think I should put something more in here? The climax occurs when Leila begins to dance with the old fat man. Mansfield description of this man is a rupture in the stereotype of the men that have been dancing with Leila. when Leila compared him with her other partners he looked shabby. This gives the reader a clue that this character is going to break Leilas magic and beautiful world. The fat man upset her by revealing the might-be-true fact of what age could do to her. He says long before that youll be sitting up there on the stage, looking on, in you nice black velvet.And these pretty arms will have turned into little short fat ones, and youll beat time with such a different king of fan-a black bony one. After this eye-opener of what might be her future, the reader can see how Leilas thoughts start to turn into pessimistic and how she questions herself, Was this first ball only the beginning of her last ball, after all? . The falling action occurs when the music seemed to change it sounded sad. Pathetic fallacy is used by Mansfield with the music to represent Leilas mood. Leila goes back in to time when deep inside her a little girl threw her pinafore over her head and sobbed.She has stopped dancing and didnt want to dance more. There are two ways of facing this problem, being pessimistic or optimistic. Suddenly another man asks her to dance with him, and she then has to make a decision. At first Mansfield presents Leilas decision to dance with the young man with curly hair as a matter of politeness (it sounds a little bit strange, but I dont know how to say it, una cuestion de educacion), but the magic of the ball makes her forget the whole conversation wi th the old man. So she decided to choose the second one.When she steps on the dance floor, in one minute, in one turn, her feet glided, glided. The light, the azaleas, the dresses, the pink face, the velvet chairs, all became one beautiful flying wheel. Mansfield joins the end with the starting, by the word play of the words wheel and the cab bowled, they bowled,(Im not sure if this makes sense), showing the return of the feelings of happiness and joy. She has forgotten totally the harsh conversation that even when she dances again with the old fat man She didnt even recognise him again.