What does the following quote from Mansfield's "The Garden Party" tell about Laura?"Little faint winds were playing chase, in at the tops of the...

The passage you have quoted reveals Laura to be sweet,
happy, light-hearted--perhaps a little frivolous--well-intentioned and in possession of
a general good will. Laura speaks of the wind by employing a pathetic
fallacy. A pathetic fallacy is a form of
personification that gives human traits to nature, animals, and
inanimate objects. It differs from personification in that personification also applies
to abstract ideas, like love and valor. She says the "winds were playing chase" and
going in and out of the open windows. Only someone very happy and simple of heart would
imagine the winds as being at play. She extends her fallacy to include the spots of
sunlight, seeing them as playing so prettily that the "warm little star" of a sunspot
deserved a kiss:

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Darling little spots. Especially the one on the
inkpot lid. It was quite warm. A warm little silver star. She could have kissed
it.

Two things confirm this
understanding of Laura. The first is the vocabulary the narrator employs while
describing Laura's thoughts. The narrator uses words like darling, little,
and tiny. The second is the preceding context of the
quotation you've selected. Prior to noticing the playing winds and sunspots, Laura found
things friendly and daringly took big bites of her bread and
butter:

The
friendliness of it, the - the - Just to prove how happy she was, ... Laura took a big
bite of her bread-and-butter
....

Further, she "skimmed,
over the lawn," gasped, "I do love parties," heard the kitchen door "chuckling," and
hugged her brother. We also learn in the context of the quotation that she hasn't
noticed the world around her before today:

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But the air! If you stopped to notice, was the
air always like this?