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Abstrak: Analisis dalam tulisan ini diarahkan pada pointof viewdalam memperkuat penggambaran dan pengembangan alur cerita, pengkarakteran, dantema.The Garden Party. Untuk mencapai hasil yang maksimal digunakan metode dokumentasi dengan teknik baca dan catat dengan kekuatan peneliti sebagai instrument utama. Hasil identifikasipoint of viewdari cerita The Garden Partydalam pengembangan alurcerita, pengakarakteran, dan pemilihan tema. Point of viewThe Garden Partydipertimbangkan dan dipiliholeh pengarang secara cermat untuk memperkuat wujud karakter tokoh sekaligus sebagai kekuatan rangkaian persoalan yang diusung dalam cerita, demikian juga dengan alur dilukiskan secara rapat sehingga setiap bagian dari The Garden Partynyaris tiada yang kosong tak bermakna. Keberhasilan dalam pembentukan alur dapat dirasakan secara halus dan lambat sebagai penopang inti cerita.
Key words: The Garden Party andPoint of view,
Introduction
If people hear the term point of
view, their interpretation will be
different from one another.Some of
them think that point of view is a kind
of opinion. As Tom Gibbson has stated
that the term ‘point of view’ which is
used in everyday has a sense as the
equivalent of ‘attitude’ or ‘opinion’
(Gibbson, 1979; 30).Point of view, on
the other hand, according to Robert O.
Bowen, is the way one sees things
including actual sight (Bowen, 1956;
172).For example: one day, while
driving down Kertajaya Street, a
reporter sees a bus hitting a
motorcycle. He decides to write about
this accident directly. Another reporter
who is not an eye-witness comes to the
place and obtains the information from
an eye-witness. His account of the
accident is going to be different from
the first reporter’s.
However, point of view has a
deeper meaning than the definition
Bowen has given. According to Edgar
V. Roberts, in writing themes about
literature, point of view is a method of
presentation, the selecting of a
particular voice with which to tell a
story, define a problem, or scribe a
state of mind (Roberts, 1977; 65).
Therefore, in a story, point of view is
one of important elements but it isoften
forgotten by readers. When the readers
read a story, they have to know the
point of view which is chosen by the
author as a narrative technique to
tellthem the story. The point of view of
one story is different from other stories
since I depend on the choice of the
pointed out that: ‘Ideally, the choice of
the author will depend on his materials
and purpose. He should choose the
point of view which enables him to
present his particular materials most
effectively in terms of his purpose
(Perrine, 1966; 164). Thus, the author
has to be careful in choosing the point
of view because he must use it most
appropriate to the story he wants to
tell.
In addition, the point of view of the
story affects the presentation of the
happenings which are selected and
arranged by the author. They are the
plot, the characterization, and the
meaning of the theme. It deals with
Leon Sumerlian’s statement that is:
The point of view should bring out the
significance of the events, and it is the
point of view in its double sense that
would give the story shape and
meaning(Sumerlian, 1968; 88).
The short story which is going to be
analyzed is “The GardenParty”. It is a
literary work of Katherine Mansfield.
She is one of the very few writers of
the 20th century to devote her efforts in
fiction exclusively to the short story
(Cohen, 19887; 613).
The Garden Party tells about the
party which is carried out by the
Sheridan. After preparing of the party
such as: the marquee has been up, the
flowers and the cream puffs have been
ordered, and the hired band soon to
arrive; there is news which comes to
the kitchen. The news is about a young
carter who dies because of a horrible
accident. He leaves a wife and five
children. He lives in a little cottage
below the Sheridan’s house. Laura is one of the Sheridan’s daughters. After
hearing the news, Laura wants the
party to be stopped but her mother and
sister disagree with her opinion so that
the party is going on. After the guests
of the party have gone, Mrs. Sheridan
commands Laura to give the scraps to
the poor family. After giving the
basket which is heaped by the scraps,
Laura sees the corpse of the man. Then
she goes home and she is picked up by
her brother.
After reading the short story, the
writer wants to know the role of the
point of view since it is very important
in developing and describing the plot,
the characterization, and the theme of
the story. Hence, the writer tries to
relation to the plot, the
character-rization, and the theme of “The Garden Party”. The analysis is done in order
that the readers are able to understand
and study the point of view
fur-thermore.
This study tries to present the
following problems such as: What
point of view is used in “The Garden
Party”, How does the point of view
develop the plot and the theme and
depict the characterizationof “The Garden Party”. Based on the problems
above, the purposes of the study can be
stated as follows: Identifying the point
of view of “The Garden Party”,
developing the plot and the theme and
depicting the characterization of “The Garden Party”.
Review of Literature, Point of View Point of view is one of the
important elements in fiction. It is the
position from which action in a literary
work is seen, heard, and described. In
other words, the term point of view
relates to tell a story. An author has to
choose the point of view from which
he will tell his story.
Edgar V. Roberts calls point of
view as a method of the presentation
(Roberts, 1977; 65). Therefore, in
presenting the story, one of the
important consideration is that the
point of view that the author uses. It is
position from which the events are
observed. The author selects a
particular voice that isgenerally known
as a speaker is familiar with a narrator.
Readers need to know through whose
eyes and mind the events are being
relayed. They ask, who is supposed to
be telling the story?” (Potter,1967: 28).
In telling his story, the author
chooses his invented speaker or
narrator. The narrator is created by the
author. Sometimes the readers hear the
author’s idea through this created
narrator. The narrator may be allowed
to enter the minds of the characters in
the story. So he knows the characters’
think and feel (ibid. p.29).
Point of view can be divided into
sorts: participant or first person point
of view and nonparticipant or third
person point of view. If the story is
told by an ‘I’, the author is using the
first person point of view. The narrator
or the speaker is the character of the
story. The character may be either a
major or minor character. If the major
the story is chiefly about him but if the
minor character as the narrator, he will
tell the story that focuses on someone
other than himself (Barnet, 1963; 38).
The first person speaker can report
everything he sees, hears, and thinks
and as he does, so he conveys not only
the actions but also of his background,
thinking, and attitude.
In the third person point of view,
the narrator of the story does not
introduce himself as a character. As an
outsider, he observes and tells about
the characters. He also describes the
action and the background of the story.
Furthermore, the narrator of the third
person point of view has power to
enter his characters’ mind (Meredith,
1972; 50).
There are three kinds of third
person point of view: The omniscient
point of view, the limited omniscient
point of view, the objective point of
view.
In the omniscient point of view, the
story is told by the narrator using third
person. This is also called as the
all-knowing point of view. In this method,
the narrator not only describes the
actions and the dialogues of the story
but also seems to know everything that
is going on in the mind of the
characters. Therefore, the narrator
reveals what the characters are doing,
seeing, hearing, saying, thinking and
feeling.
Another type of the third person
point of view is limited or selective
omniscient point of view. In the
limited omniscient point of view, the
narrator tells the story by focusing on
one character in the story. He tells the
readers what his focus character sees,
hears, says, does, thinks, and feels. The
narrator knows everything about the
focus character but he doesn’t know
what other characters are thinking and
feeling. In other words, the narrator
describes the focus character from
inside and outside, and describes other
characters from outside. His chosen
character may be either major and
minor (Perrine, 1977; 161).
In the objective point of view, the
narrator disappears. His role is like
moving sound camera. This camera
can go anywhere, but it can record
only what it sees and hears (ibid, p.
163). In the objective point of view,
the narrator makes no comment; he
does not interpret or enter into his
readers are placed in the position of the
spectators at the movie because they
just see what the characters do and
hear what they say. However, they do
not know the characters think and feel
since the narrator does not explained it
(ibid).
Plot
Plot is a very important in a literary
work. It constitutes the frame work of
a story. As Laurence Perrine has stated
that plot is the sequence of events of
which a story is composed (ibid. p.
50). Sequence means a group of
incidents or actions arranged in order
to be followed one another to create a
unified story. The author has planned
and selected the incidents or events to
present the story.
Plot contains some parts. They are
exposition, conflict, climax, and
resolution. The first part is exposition.
The exposition refers to the opening of
literary work. The exposition is used to
describe the characters and their
relationship, to explain the setting and
situation, and to reveal the
back-ground. Thus, the readers get a certain
amount of early information of the
story.
The second is conflict. The term
‘conflict’ is familiar. It is the result of
an opposition between at least two
sides. In a story, the conflict takes two
opposition people or forces to produce
a plot. Without this opposition, there is
no conflict and without conflict, there
is no plot. Therefore, in a story, the
conflict is the heart of the plot
(Altenbernd, 1970; 23) as the essential
part of the plot; the conflict must be
obvious importance of the characters
involved.
There are four kinds of conflicts:
the conflict may be one of man against
nature, man against another man, man
against society, and man again himself
(Little, 1966; 83). The conflict usually
leads to another conflict until it raises
and reaches a climax.
The climax is a highest crisis of the
story. It is reached when the
compli-cation attains its highest of intensity,
from which point of the outcome of the
story is inevitable (Kenney, 1966; 18).
The climax can be point at which
issues and conflict in the plot are fully
and clearly resolved, or it can establish
the circumstance which the author to
The last part is resolution. The
resolution is what happens at the end
of the story. According to Graham
little, the resolution consist of
everything from the climax to the end
of the story (Little, op. cit. p. 85).
Thereby, the resolution constitutes the
rounding off the actions and the
conclusion of the story.
Characterization
Characterizationis the creation of
the imaginary people in fiction so that
they exist for readers as lifelike
(Holman, 1980; 810). The imaginary
people are familiar with the characters
in a fiction. ‘The character in literature is an author’s represent of human
being specifically of those qualities
that determine how an individual
reacts to various conditions or attempts
to shape his other environment’
(Roberts, op. cit. p. 54). In a story,
there are both major and minor
characters.
The author may present his
character either directly or indirectly.
In direct presentation, he describes
what the character is like, through the
narrator’s explanation. Indirect
presentation, he shows the character in
action and the readercan know what he
is like from what he thinks, says, and
does. The direct presentation should be
supported by the indirect one in order
that the story is to be believable.
In a fiction, the character may seem
flat or round, depending on how the
author creates him. The flat or static
character is characterized by one or
two traits and can be summed up in a
sentence, whereas the round or
dynamic character is complex and
many sides, perhaps requiring an easy
for full analysis (Perrine, op. cit. p.
85). The flat character is described in
simple way. The important thing is that
the flat character tends to stay the same
through the story, the same sort of
person from beginning until the end of
the story. The round character
contrasts with the flat character
because the round character is
described in greater depth and in
detail. The dynamic or round character
undergoes a change in some aspects of
his character, personality, or outlook.
Characterization is used by the
author to reveal the personality and
character of fictional person. The
author reveals the character by
action and speech, inner thought and
feeling, and his effect on other
characters. To be convincing,
charac-terization must also observe three other
principles: First, the characters must be
consistent in their behavior, second,
the characters must be clearly
moti-vated in whatever they do, especially
when there is any change in their
behavior, and third, the characters have
to be lifelike or plausible (ibid).
Theme
A theme is the message or the moral
of the story (Jones, 1968; 31). The
theme is underlying ideas of general
truth about life expressed in a literary
work. As Lynn Altenbernd has pointed
out that the theme is general vision of
life or more explicit pro-position about
human experience that literature
conveys (Altenbernd, op. cit. p. 30).
Thereby, by writing a story the author
has purpose to convey the readers his
message.
A good story is composed by a
theme or central idea since in a story,
theme has function as controller. The
theme controls and unifies everything
that goes into the story. Theme is what
give a good story its unity (Perrine, op.
cit. p. 118).
Every pieces of literary work has its
theme but the way, it is conveyed may
beit different. The author sometimes
states his theme directly, yet, more
often he implies it. In the story, theme
is usually presented impliedly.
Therefore, the readers must interpret
by themselves.
Interpretation of the theme cannot
be separated from other elements of
fiction because the theme can be
discovered by analyzing the elements.
Thus, the readers must always pay
attention the separate parts of fiction’s
elements and the relationships among
them in order to discover the theme.
Point of view in relation to Plot, Characterization, and Theme
As a literary work, a story has
elements that make it up. The elements
have relation among them. Hence, they
cannot be separated from one another.
The relation of the elements to the
whole provides a unity of the story.
The unified and complex whole of the
literary work can be understood by
analysis of the elements (Kenney, op.
cit. p. 6).
One of the elements is point of
such as: plot, characterization, and
theme. The choice of point of view
will influence the presentation of
character, incident, and every other
thing represented (Scholes, 1966; 275).
Thereby, the author must give careful
attention to choose point of view since
it must appropriate to the story he
wants to tell. The choosing point of
view is the first and most fundamental
decision which the author has to make
(Gibson, 1979; 30).
The author makes his story by
presenting the elements of it. One of
the elements is plot. In a story the plot
cannot be separated from point of view
which is used. The plot of the story
that is presented to the readers depends
on the point of view (Brook, 1959;
129). As the readers know, the plot
exist because of its elements or parts
such as: exposition, conflict, climax,
and resolution. Thereby, the point of
view develops the plot by employing
the plot parts suitably. In other words,
in the story, the using of certain point
of view has to appear in the plot’s parts
which employed in developing the
plot.
Characterization is one of fiction’s
elements. It is usedto show the
character in a story. The
characteri-zation has relation to the point of view.
As B. Bernard Cohen has stated that
point of view is relevant to the
characterization (Cohen, 1963; 115).
Therefore, in the story, the depiction of
the characterization deals with the
using of particular point of view. In
this case, the readers know which
characters chosen by the narrator to be
depicted internally and externally.
Point of view relates to the theme of
the story. According to Walter James
Miller, point of view helps establish
the theme (Miller, 1984; 40). In other
words, point of view has role in
developing the theme. For the readers,
the theme can discover by analyzing of
the characterization. Therefore, the
readers deduce that the theme is
conveyed through the presentation of
the characterization. And the
presentation of the characterization is
determined by using of point of view.
Thus, the point of view develops the
theme through the presentation of the
characterization.
Analysis and Conclusion
Point Of View The Garden Party
After reading “The Garden Party”,
the point of view which is used in “The
Garden Party” is the limited omni -scient point of view. The reason is:
first, the narrator of “The Garden Party’ is not character of the story. The
narrator is outsider and everything in
the story is described in the third
person, that is; he, she, it, and they.
Second, the narrator brings the
author’s theme and focuses on one
character and the character has a role
of the story. The narrator knows
everything about the focus character.
The narrator describes the inside and
outside of the focus character. Third,
the narrator only describes the outside
of other characters.
The Evidences of Using the Limited Omniscient Point of View of The Garden Party
The Narrator as an Outsider
In “The Garden Party”, the narrator
is not a character of the story. Every
thing in the story is described in the
third person. Here, the writer can prove
that the narrator is an outsider by
showing the beginning of “The Garden Party” as the following narrator’s
description:
‘And after all the weather was ideal. They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden party if they had ordered it.
Windless, warm, the sky without a cloud. Only the blue was veiled with a haze of light gold, as it is sometimes in early summer. The gardener had been up since dawn, mowing the lawns and sweeping them, until the grass and the dark flat rosettes where the daisy plants had been seemed to shine.’(Mansfield, 1958; 65-66).
The Narrator’s Description of The
Focus Character
In “The Garden Party”, the narrator
concentrates mainly only one character
in her description. The narrator
choos-es Laura as a major character and
makes the focus of narrator’s attention.
The narrator tells what Laura sees,
says, and hears, does, thinks, and feels.
In other words, the narrator describes
the inside and outside of Laura. Here,
the writer presents the narrator’s
description of Laura as the focus
character, as follows:
The narrator describes what Laura does, and then the narrator enters
Laura’s feeling:
‘Away Laura flew, still holding her
piece of bread and butter. It’s so delicious to havean excuse for eating out of doors, and besides, she loved having to arrange things; she always felt she could do it so much better than anybody else.’ (ibid. p. 66).
Furthermore, the narrator describes the speeches between Laura and one the
‘Good morning,’ she said, copying her mother’s voice. But that
sounded so fearfully affected that she was ashamed, and stammered
like a little girl, ‘Oh – or – have you come –is it about the marquee?’
‘That’s right, miss,’ said the tallest
of the men, a lanky, freckled fellow, and he shifted his tool-bag, knocked back his straw hat and smiled down
at her. ‘That’s about it.’ (ibid)
The following quotation is the
narrator’s description about what
Laura sees of the men and what Laura feels:
‘His smile was so easy, so friendly,
that Laura recovered. What nice eyes he had, small, but such a dark blue. And now she looked at the others, they were smiling too.
‘Cheer up, we won’t bite, their
smile seemed to say. How very nice workmen were.And what a beautiful
morning. She mustn’t mention the
morning; she must be business-like.
The marquee.’(ibid. p. 66-67).
Further, the narrator describes what Laura hears, sees, and says, and what Sadie says and does:
‘The front door bell pealed, and
there sounded the rustle of Sadie’s print skirt on the stairs. A man’s
voice murmured; Sadie answered,
careless, ‘I’m sure I don’t know.
Wait. I’ll ask MRSSheridan.’ ‘What
is it Sadie?’ Laura came into the hall. ‘It’s the florist, Miss Laura.’ It was, indeed.’ (ibid. p. 70-71). The following quotation is the
narrator’s description about what
Laura says, does, sees, and thinks:
‘I don’t understand,’ said Laura
and she walked quickly out of the room into her own
Bedroom. There, quite by chance, the first thing she saw this charming girl in the
The Narrator’s Description of Other Characters
In “The Garden Party”, the narrator
describes other characters from their
outside. In other words, the narrator
only describes what other characters
say and do. Here, the writer presents
the narrator’s description about other
characters say and do, as follows:
The narrator describes the
conversation between Mrs. Sheridan
and her child:
‘Where do you want the marquee put, mother?’
My dear child, it’s no use asking
me. I’m determined to leave
everything to you children this year. Forget I am your mother. Treat me
as an honor guest.’ (ibid. p. 65).
Next, the narrator describes what some characters say and do:
“I have never seen such exquisite sandwiches,’ said Jose’s rapturous
voice. ‘How many kinds did you say
there were, cook? Fifteen?’ ‘Fifteen, Miss Jose.’
‘Well, cook, I congratulate you.’
The Development of the Plot of “The Garden Party” Using the Limited Omniscient Point of View
The Garden Party uses the limited
omniscient point of view. And
deve-lopment the plot of “The Garden Party” is based on the limited omni -scient point of view. As we know, the
plot exists because of its parts such as;
exposition, conflict, climax, and
resolution. Therefore, the limited
omniscient point of view develops the
plot by employing the plot’s parts. In
other words, in development the plot
of “The Garden Party” the type of the
limited omniscient point of view
always appears in exposition, conflict,
climax, and resolution.
The Limited Omniscient of View in the Exposition
The exposition of “The Garden
Party” begins with a situation in a
morning when breakfast is not yet
prepared in Sheridan’s’ house. In the
morning, there is a conversation
between Mrs. Sheridan and her
children. Then the arriving of the men
who build the marquee. From the
exposition above, the writer can prove
the involving of the limited omniscient
point of view by presenting the
narrator’s description. As an outsider,
the narrator describes the focus
character ‘Laura’ who has a role from
the inside and outside, a follows:
‘Breakfast was not yet ever before
the men came to put up the
marquee. ‘Where do you want the marquee put, mother?’ My dear child, it’s no use asking me. I’m
determined to leave everything to you children this year. Forget I am your mother. Treat me as an
honored guest.’ But 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. (ibid. p. 65-66).’
The Limited Omniscient Point of View in the Conflict
InThe Garden Party. There are
some conflicts. The involving of the
limited omniscient point of view seems
that the conflicts occur on the focus
character ‘Laura’ whether conflicts
happen inside of Laura or conflict
between Laura and other characters.
First, conflict happens inside of
Laura. When the workmen come,
Laura is confused because she is still
holding a piece of bread and butter.
Laura doesn’t want to hand it but there
is no place to put it. And she doesn’t
The conflict above is described by
the narrator as an outsider. The
narrator describes what Laura sees, and
then the narrator enters Laura’s
nowhere to put it, and she couldn’t possibly throw it away.’ (ibid. p.
66).
Second, conflict happens inside of Laura.By seeing the workmen who are nice and energetic to work. Laura
thinks why she doesn’t friends like the
men and she actually wants to join with them.
The conflict above can be known
from the narrator’s description about
Laura sees and thinks, as follows: How many men that she knew would have done such a think. Oh, how extraordinary nice workmen were, she thought. Why
couldn’t she have workmen for
friends rather than the silly boys she danced with and came to Sunday night supper? She would get on much better with men like
hem.’ (ibid. p. 68).
Third, conflict occurs between
Laura and Jose. They have different
opinions. Laura wants to stop the party
because of the death of her poor
neighbor, and Jose opposes her
opinion.
The conflict above can be known
from the narrator’s description about
speeches between Laura and Jose, as
follows:
But Jose was still more
amazed. ‘Stop the garden
party? My dear Laura, don’t be so absurd. Of course we can’t
Fourth, conflict happens between
Laura and her mother. Laura’s
Breathless, half-choking she told
the dreadful tory. ‘Of course, we can’t have our party, can we?’ she
pleaded. The band and everybody
arriving. They’d hear us, mother; they’re nearly neighbors.’
Fifth, conflict happens inside of Laura. Laura has to accept her mother
and sister’s opinionthough the opinion
is opposite to her feeling. This conflict can be known about Laura feels and says, as follows:
‘Laura had to say ‘yes’ to that,
but she felt it was all wrong.
She sat down on her mother’s
sofa and pinched the cushion frill.
‘Mother, isn’t it really terribly heartless of us?’ she asked.
(ibid. p. 79).
The Limited Omniscient Point of View in the Climax
In climax, the focus character has a
role since the climax happens inside of
Laura as the focus character. Laura has
her highest inner conflict that is: the
party will be stopped or gone on. The
climax can be known from the
narrator’s description about what
Laura says, does, sees, and thinks, as
follows”:
‘I don’t understand,’ said Laura
and she walked quickly out of the room into her own
Bedroom. There, quite by chance, the first thing she saw this charming girl in the
Mirror, in her black hat trimmed with gold daisies, and a long black velvet ribbon.
(ibid. p. 79-80).
The Limited Omniscient Point of View in the Resolution
The resolution of “The Garden
Party” is the finish of the party, MRS
Sheridan orders Laura to give the grief
family the scraps. Laura is happy to
hear it and she goes to the poor family
house to deliver them. Further, she
sees the grief wife and a man who is
lying forever. After that, Laura is out
of the house with her sob. She picked
up by her brother. Then, she goes
home with her crying in her brother’s
embrace. As the following the
narrator’s description:
‘Laura came. There lay a young
man, fast asleep – sleeping so soundly, so deeply, that he was far, far away from them both. Oh, so remote, so peaceful. He was dreaming. Never wake him up again. His head was sunk in the pillow, his eyes were closed; they were blind under the closed eyelids.
(ibid. p. 66).’
The Development of the Theme of “The Garden Party Using the Limited Omniscient Point of View
The Garden Party” uses the limited
omniscient point of view; the narrator
brings the author’s theme and focuses
on one character. The character has a
role in the story. The narrator knows
everything about the focus character.
The narrator depicts her from the
inside and outside and he only depicts
other characters from the outside. In
readers to give more attention to the
focus character than others. In “The Garden Party”, the focus character is
Laura. Laura dominates the story and
she is a major and complex character.
Therefore, the writer analyzes what
Laura confronts in the story to discover
the theme of “The Garden Party”. In “the Garden Party, Laura
confronts two opposites events,
namely; the party is carried out by her
family, and the death of young carter is
caused by horrible accident. The
events happen nearly together since the
accident and the carter’s house is nearby to Laura’s house. In the story,
the party is symbol of happiness and
the death is a symbol of sadness.
Therefore, it can be deduced that the
theme of “the Garden Party is “The Happiness and Sadness exist side by side in Life,”
Conclusion
The point of view is used by
the author to present a story. In
presenting the story, the author
chooses a certain point of view which
appropriates to the material of the story
and the elements of the story such as:
plot, characterization, and theme.
“The Garden Party” uses the
limited omniscient point of view. The
limited point of view is suitable to the
story as a short story since it can
scarcely hope to develop several minds
of characters. The author of” The Garden Party” limits to focus on
developing one mind of character that
is Laura. She is described from her
inside and outside. The other
charac-ters are only described from their
outside.
In “The Garden Party”, the
limited omniscient point of view has
an important role in relation to the plot,
the characterization, and the theme.
First is the limited omniscient
point of view in relation to the plot, the
limited omniscient point of view
employs the plot’s parts such as:
exposition, conflict, climax, and
reso-lution. In other words, in developing
the plot, the type of the limited point of
view especially the role of Laura
always appears in exposition, conflict,
climax, and resolution.
Second is the limited
omni-scient point of view in relation to the
characterization. In depicting the
characterization, the limited point of
depicted from her inside and outside.
Hence, Laura dominates the story and
she is a major and complex character
who has many traits and behaviors.
Third is the limited point of
view in relation to the theme. By using
the limited point of view, the narrator
brings the author’s theme and focuses
on describing the characterization of
Laura. Therefore, by analyzing what
Laura confronts in “The Garden Party”, the theme of the story can be discovered. The theme of “The Garden Party” is Happiness and Sadness exists
side by side in life.
Thus, in “The Garden Party”,
the limited point of view is very
effect-tive because it appropriates to present
the story, develop and describe the
elements such as plot, characterization,
and the theme.
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