Kitty Maitland Character Analysis

Kitty Maitland is the only named guest who attends the garden party, but the story doesn’t include any information about who she is or how she knows the Sheridans. She is clearly also a member of the colonial social elite; she calls at breakfast time and Laura adopts her mother’s refined English on the phone. Later, Maitland compares the green-clothed band to frogs as they set up in the garden’s tennis court. Her character largely serves to underscore and satirize the Sheridans’ class background.