Just Because Men Can Doesn’t Mean Women Can't
“The Dinner Party” is a short story about a social gathering in India. The colonel argues with a girls words of how women have outgrown the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse era which is the theme. It is what ties the whole story together because what happens is a cobra is slithering its way around the dining room and is noticed first by the host whose expression told the American what was happening. After the guests are sitting as still as stones, and the cobra has wiggled his way outside to the veranda, the host exclaims, “You were right, Colonel! A man has just shown us an example of perfect control.” This confuses the American as shown in this sentence, “Just a minute,” the American
“The Dinner Party” is a short story about a social gathering in India. The colonel argues with a girls words of how women have outgrown the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse era which is the theme. It is what ties the whole story together because what happens is a cobra is slithering its way around the dining room and is noticed first by the host whose expression told the American what was happening. After the guests are sitting as still as stones, and the cobra has wiggled his way outside to the veranda, the host exclaims, “You were right, Colonel! A man has just shown us an example of perfect control.” This confuses the American as shown in this sentence, “Just a minute,” the American