Compare and Contrast the old age represented by the fatman and the youth represented by Leila in full details in at least 3 different...

In the short story "Her First Ball," by Katherine
Mansfield, old age is resentful of youth. The old, fat man envies Leila's youth and
tries to ruin her first ball by pointing out the fact that Leila too will grow old.
Initially, the old, fat man's spite grabs Leila by the heart. A cloud is thrown on her
first ball. Leila's heart sinks for a moment. She thinks about the old, fat man's words.
He puts terror in her heart momentarily.

While Leila is
pondering the old, fat man's suggestion that she too will grow old and sit among the old
women who are not dancing, youth in all its glory shows up and asks Leila to dance. The
young man with the curly hair sweeps Leila off her feet. They glide across the dance
floor in glory and exuberance.

Leila is over her
despondency. She is exhilerated in every move of the dance. When the young man
accidentally bumps Leila into the old, fat man, Leila is vindicated. She is triumphant
in the fact that the old, fat man cannot keep her spirits
down.

Without a recognition of the old, fat man, she feels
herself to be revenged of the old, fat man's cynicism. Afterall, what does he know about
her future? Perhaps she will live forever and be young at
heart.

When Leila bumps the old, fat man, she does not even
acknowledge him. She is over his snide remarks. He cannot keep her spirits down. She
glides right past him and floats in the ecstasy of her
youthfulness.