Dinner Party
The theme of the short story, “The Dinner Party”, by Mona Gardner, is prejudice. ... The theme of the story “The Dinner Party” is shown through the examples of: women acting as cowards, women reacting poorly in a crisis situation, and the guests assuming a male saves them from the cobra. ... This quote proves the example shown by the colonel only judging the women at the party and not knowing how women around the world react in a crisis situation.