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This paper investigates the progression of the narrative and the psychological and emotional development of the major character in Home They Brought her Warrior Dead by applying Halliday’s theory of transitivity. Transitivity patterns are useful to study the link between languages and thought The study will pave the way to understanding the inner feelings of the widow, which are concealed by the poet by using different linguistic choices. In the first two stanzas of the poem, the widow does not show any sign of movement, whereas, in the third and fourth stanzas of the poem, action, and movement become the focus. Thus, there is a subtle narrative progression from the first two stanzas to the last two stanzas of the poem. The present study is a contribution to the field of Systematic Functional Linguistics and lexico-grammatical analysis, which originate with the frameworks of stylistics and foregrounded approaches to texts. However, Transitivity analysis is markedly different from traditional analysis as in the former approach text analysis is an explanatory activity (how a text means?), whereas, in the latter, the analysis is esteemed as an interpretive activity (what a text means?). The study is significant because it provides an analytical and objective tool for exploring meanings from the text by studying the relationship between the metafunctions and grammatical system, between the cultural context and the schematic structure of the text.

Research is conducted on Marxism but many literary genres still need to be studied using Marxist lens. Short stories like ‘The Garden Party’ gives realistic depiction of life so demands a Marxist explanation. It is full of themes and characters, every individual encounters frequently in real life, has not yet been studied in view of some economic or social theory. This research aims to analyse this short story applying Marxism to yield plurality of meanings embedded in it and to widen compass of this economic and political theory. Research technique used here is qualitative in nature as it analyses ‘words and phrases’ used in the text to decipher its underlying theme. The findings of this study gives an insight into social condition of a common human being and subjugation of lower social class in the hands of upper social class. Further, it scrutinizes “the politics of class” to observe socio-economic circumstances of individuals and societies along with asserting how people are shaped, and their behaviour is affected by their social class. Through characters, Katherine Mansfield has not only portrayed exploitation and manipulation of the lower social class/stratum but has also revealed role of ideology to maintain this status quo.