Step-by-step explanation:
The theme of this story is control in situations of both men and women. This story tells us that in every situation we are placed in, we must take control of it and make the best of it.
“The Dinner Party” by Mona Gardner is about a party in India, in which a colonel and a girl argue about how women act in a crisis. An American naturalist who is at the party is watching the argument and sees the hostess, who is acting strangely, gesture for a bowl of milk to be put outside the door. The American knows that this means a cobra is in the room, so in order to get everybody to quiet down, he plays a game of control where they cannot move or they would lose money. When the cobra lunges for the milk, he shuts the door. Then, he finds out that the cobra has been crawling over the hostess’s foot, and she has had the most control in the room, proving that women can act bravely in a crisis.