"Marriage à la Mode" is a 1921 short story by Katherine Mansfield.
[1] The title is inspired by a series of paintings by William Hogarth, called Marriage A-la-Mode.
[2] The text is written in the modernist mode, without a set structure, and with many shifts in the narrative.
[citation needed] Isabel, the wife of bourgeois William, has taken up with a new group of friends, poets and artists, who are living it up at their house, at their expense, and do little more than chat and produce highly questionable modern art.
While they are out in the garden, Isabel receives the letter and reads it out loud to her friends, who find it hilarious.