Minisode Thirty-One: Parties
Literary Friction
The House Party by Stevens
I think it's one of the best novels. Stevens in remains of the day, he's describing how he's perfectly facilitating this party that's happening at the great house but also his father is dying at the same time. It's an amazing novel. And then i was also thinking of, like, speaking of the english party, which i seem to be using as my examples - assembly by natasha brown. She goes to a fancy garden party that her whte boy friends parents are throwing, and it just is the perfect way to show how british society has rendered this character an absolute outsider. The party is full of signs and signifiers of class and wealth and privilege, and
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