Polite Dance Songs and One Man Drinking Games.

First question!
"Why doesn't Parker allow the narrator to stop waltzing?"
I believe that Parker doesn't let her character stop waltzing because it would have been offensive to the man who had asked, but most importantly it was a man she had been rude to. Behavior like that was against the norms of the time. Parker is writing about the woman's role in society at this time. Not dancing with the gentleman would have gone against the norms and social ideals of what women should do and how they should act. If Parker had allowed her narrator to say No, hell no, as someone might do today, to the man asking her to dance even though she really doesn't want to she would probably lower herself in the eyes of society. She doesn't want to dance with anybody but society at the time will not let her control her own affairs. She must dance with a man if he asked. Women at this time are trapped by their gender, in the eyes of society they are inferior to men, and their voices go unheard because they are not allowed to say that they really would not like to dance, society would not approve.
The way Parker writes the story gives in life. the narrator is funny, her eternal dialogue is what really gives the story life. By writing a story like this she's opening society to the idea that women don't love every second of balls and all of them don't like what society believes they should like. This story also lets women know that its is okay to think these things. that maybe if you don't wanna dance you shouldn't.

Second Question!!
"For the Harper group."
For this question, i really had to think about it. I think that though she doesn't give the characters in her story a race, she doesn't need too. she speaking to all women about there it doesn't have anything to do with what the color of your skin is. This was a really bad time in America when a lot of men were drinking a lot. Edgar Allen Poe, drank so much that his fiance Sarah Helen Whitman refused to marry him if he didn't give it up, he didn't so she canceled their wedding. In this story its the drinking that drives Lauras husband from her. He leaves her, a broken empty bottle, to find himself a new full one, and this ones not a women that would manage your house, take care of your kids it's just the liqueur, a liquid, an uncaring, burning draft that in the end always leaves you. but i'm getting carried away. There was a movement called the Temperance movement that was making movements to reduce alcoholism and promote abstinence. This could be her "Imaginary Audience" that shes writing to as Ong would say. She would also be writing to women, who think that there is not another option besides getting married.