The plot of the dinner party story?

Answer 1

The colonial officers wife make the boy catch the cobra to show women have an ounce of controle

Answer 2

"The Dinner Party" is a short story by Mona Gardner about a prideful British colonel and his wife who host a dinner party. A debate arises between the guests over a story involving three prisoners and the implications of the ending. The story challenges the assumptions and prejudices of the characters and culminates in a twist ending that reveals the colonel's ignorance and prejudice.