"The New Dress" by Virginia Woolf 1. What is the story's setting (place and time)? 2. What type of narration does the author employ in the story? Whose perspective does the story's narration represent? 3. Can we trust Mabel's perception of the party? Why? Why not? 4. What do Mabel's feelings of inferiority say about social pressures experienced by women? What types of pressures are addressed in the story? Do women nowadays experience similar pressures? 5. How does Mabel's self-perception change in the course of the story? 6. What is the meaning (or rather meanings) of the story's title? 7. What are the story's themes?