Question

Which element of the setting is most important in the narrator's encounters with the deer?

the clearness of the sky


the location of village residents


the colony of nesting herons


the darkness of the area at night

Answer 1

Answer:

B. climatic conditions

Explanation:

After reading this excerpt from Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party,” Mansfield uses climatic conditions to describe the setting.

She clearly says, “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.” She explicitly refers to the cloudless sky and the ideal conditions for a party outdoors since there was no wind and it was warm.