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it threatened who she was as a member of the white race and the upper classes. Therefore, it can be seen that Ednas desire to pa...

the century is likely to demonstrate far more social constraints and strict behavioural codes which mediate against gender equalit...

such endeavors she discovers that this is not the case. She tries to escape through passion, but finds that she is still a woman i...

was a woman who was independent, has affairs, leaves her husband, isnt interested in being the sole person responsible for the upb...

honesty, no such thing for anyone. She seeks happiness in many avenues of pursuit but she may well be unrealistic in all she pursu...

about, but as the tension rises, a perspective that is discussed in the section on tone within the story, the reader senses that t...

on his feelings because of the societal mores of his day. The closest town, Starkefield, symbolizes these mores. Central to the ...

In five pages this paper presents a character analysis of Edith Wharton's heroine Lily Bart in The House of Mirth and argues that ...

In twenty pages this paper examines naturalism and realism of the 19th century in a consideration of Edith Wharton's The House of ...

had children to raise on my own and my financial situation was not dire, but I had to earn a living and I turned to writing. Alc...

In five pages this paper examines how in 'The Spaces of Ethan Frome' Judith Fryer critically evaluates the famous novella by Edith...

and large, the wealthy is a class of leisure. This upper class mentality is expressed in Whartons (2000) House of Mirth. The nov...

In 5 pages the themes of innocence and experience as they are depicted in these Victorian and post Victorian literary works The Ho...

"Make connections between a movie and...the culture" (Corrigan 7). In this novel, and film, costumes, or clothing, was a very impo...

If we look at the way that conspicuous consumption today and in the past there is still an element of class differentiation in the...

This struggle is also seen in the character of Archer who is intrigued by her uniqueness. He is stifled by society and by the dema...

push her towards men who come from these rich families. There is a sense that like marries like and that the money must be kept wi...

opportunity to exercise their intellects--they went away to college, and if they were not encouraged to enter business or a profes...

after the stories are done. In the beginning of both of the novels the women seem to be relatively happy, and perhaps ignorant, ...

hotel owners son Robert, whose role in life seems to be entertaining the young wives while maintaining a safe enough distance so n...

yo like. Ill be home tonight." The screen door made a little snick as it swung closed, and she was alone. She pulled the gown back...

white masters raped their black female slaves and as such many of those females gave birth to interracial children who were slaves...

It is through her that Wharton asks if women, trapped as they are in domesticity, "can make themselves and their ideals present in...

Realist writers "were more or less in open revolt against [society]," and naturalism combined the theories of Charles Darwin to co...

This paper addresses Kate Chopin's Nineteenth-Century novel, The Awakening. The author contends that the literary techniques util...

In five pages this paper discusses how in this Edith Wharton novel, family responsibility is compromised by conspicuous consumptio...

Mrs. Mallards husband. She describes the "sudden wild abandonment" (Chopin 394) that Louise Mallard felt upon hearing this news. ...

than matron, she needed to attach a descriptive label to herself which belonged to her alone, and to no one else. It becomes evid...

whom she falls in love, but she begins to branch out and experience life on her own terms, focusing on her own desires. She learns...

In six pages these two female protagonists are contrasted and compared with their respective self images also considered. There a...