Read "The Dinner Party a short story by Mona Gardner. Then answer the following questions using evidence from the story to support your responses: What is the story’s major theme? Provide specific examples from the text to support your response.

How does the conversation between the young girl and the colonel foreshadow the story’s theme? Use examples to illustrate your point.

Why is it important that the naturalist is American?

How is the cobra symbolic?

What exactly are our characters here attempting to overcome?