Her First Ball by Katherine Mansfield (1888- 1923) BBS 2nd year English
ball (A ball is a formal dance party)
summary
Leila, 18 years countryside girl, is the main character of the story. The theme of the story is loss of innocence. The main character becomes able to handle her mental disturbance. Leila, with her cousins Meg, Laurie, Laura, and Jose Sheridan, was going to attend the ball (dance party). Being a country girl she guessed that at the ball there were rich, intelligent people with good clothes and she hopes to find a polite manner in the ball hall. It was her first ball dance party, therefore, she was very excited.
They arrived at the hall where the ball dance would start. There were varieties of lights and the hall was crowded with young boys and girls. Leila was very glad about this new experienced. There in the ladies' room, girls were busy decorating themselves.
Then the music began and couples started dancing. Her first two partners were young but her third partner was an older fat man, whose clothes were not arranged properly. While dancing, he revealed to her that he had been to balls for thirty years. That was twelve years before Leila was born. He pointed out the older women sitting on stage and said that Leila would soon be too old to dance and be one of them. This made her feel sad. The two stopped dancing. Actually, the fat man had spoiled her happiness. Later the fat man said that he was only joking but Leila was still disturbed.
Again new music was played but Leila didn’t want to dance anymore. After that, a soft tune began, and a young man with curly hair offered her to dance. She accepted to dance with him soon she forgot what the fat man said. While dancing she knocked into the same fat man he said "pardon," she smiled at him and she didn't even recognize him again.
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