How does the author develop Mrs. Pringle’s point of view throughout the text? In the story fourteen from commonlit.

Mrs. Pringle is one of the main characters in the story. The setting is in New York. Mrs. Pringle is a popular hostess. She has a party to make men know that her daughter Elaine is available.

But one by one calls her to say that they will not be able to attend the party. So she gets frustrated and finally, one man arrives.

Mrs Pringle is a woman who enjoys fashion. She has a temperamental nature and gets excited very soon. At the same time, she is a very capable lady who can get things executed the way she wants them to be. So the story revolves around her.

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Answer:

Mrs. Pringle sees the people she has invited to dinner as useful for her own purposes, which are to establish her “social position” and keep up her reputation for being a good hostess as she shows off Elaine. The guests are either useful or not worth her time. The audience sees this through what she says throughout the play. For example, she expresses disappointment to one guest who calls to cancel, but speaks “delightedly” to Elaine, saying “Good! The widow can’t come . . .” The verbal irony—her thinking or feeling the opposite of what she says—places the audience’s or reader’s attention squarely on Mrs. Pringle instead of the other characters and the guests mentioned in the text and encourages a sarcastic or amused response to her frustrations.

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