Several of mansfield's short stories are concerned with a sense of loss - whether it be of identity, ambition or within a relationship. Discuss the use of this theme in several of the stories in the garden party.
Katherine Mansfield’s uses ‘a sense of loss’ as a theme in numerous short stories in order for the reader to sympathize and understand her characters’ on a much deeper level. A sense of loss – this basically stands for one losing something or is being deprived of something that he/she once had, whether it be a material, emotion, or people.