The Painted Veil
What two attributes does Mrs.Garstin display in the way she arranges her dinner parties?
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Mrs.Garstin is driven by parsimony and ambition. Her ambitious nature urges her to throw regular elaborate parties where she invites only people who may be useful to her; while her parsimony dictates that she is always thrifty in planning these dinners, even substituting Moselle for champagne.