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Mothers and Daughters in the Works of Dorothy Allison, Sylvia Plath, and Edith Wharton

Relationships between mothers and daughters are contrasted and compared as they are represented in Bastard Out of Carolina by Doro...

Edith Wharton’s Roman Fever

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

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton and Literary Criticism

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

House of Mirth by Edith Wharton and Patriarchy

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

Kate Peyton: Woman of Integrity or Monster Mother?

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

Sylvia Plath's Poetry Experience

In five pages Sylvia Plath's poetry is considered in an analysis of reader experiences and how their tragic elements differ from t...

Plath & Wharton/Society’s Expectations for Women

Jar was published in 1961 and Plath committed suicide just two years prompted a New York Times critic to question if it was even p...

Kim Chernin's In My Mother's House

shtetl, the Jewish ghetto, had become unbearable under Tsarist rule. Chernin recognized that the women of her family had an abund...

Class and Gender in Bastard Out of Carolina

In this essay consisting of five pages the ways in which class and gender influence the outcome of Dorothy Allison's novel are con...

Sylvia Plath, Mirror & Metaphors

topic was greatly on her mind. This can be discerned due to the fact that the poem is written as a riddle with "pregnancy" as the ...

"Lady Lazarus", Performance Art, and Suicide

Suicide and self-negation as performance art are examined in a critical analysis of Sylvia Plath's 1962 poem, "Lady Lazarus" in a ...

Sylvia Plath's Life and Art

as perhaps a Jew. This presents us with imagery, symbolic references, to the confused state of Plath in terms of her own identity....

Sylvia Plath’s Identity as a Confessional Poet

was not just one simple dream that Plath had, but an ongoing connection or vision of these three old women, these three witches wh...

Feminist Voices of Sylvia Plath and Adrienne Rich

poem begins with darkness, of the raw pain of expectancy. And everything, from that point forward, is motion(Annas 171-183). The s...

Theme of Identity in the Literature of Sharon Olds and Sylvia Plath

not constitute beauty; it only reflects back the physical parameters of what it sees. The fact that occasional "faces" disturb its...

Feminist Views of Adrienne Rich and Sylvia Plath

were attracted to writing poetry while very young and both were encouraged by their families (McHenry, 1995). Both the Pl...

'Lady Lazarus' by Sylvia Plath

In five pages this paper presents a critical analysis of Sylvia Plath's poem 'Lady Lazarus.' Four pages are cited in the bibliogr...

Personal Problems in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath

poetry as the stresses. It is because of this particular styling that syllabic poems most often contain no rhyme or uniform numbe...

Novel and Film Comparison of The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

of a visual masterpiece that demonstrates that Scorsese is an artist who understands the tone of the original work from which he c...

Contemporary American Novel

Penn Warren, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and The Age Of Innocence by Edith Wharton. All of these novels ...

A Feminist Reading of Dorothy Allison's, Bastard Out of Carolina

father, for she is dependent upon him economically, and for whatever social status she hopes to realistically acquire. In his lit...

Tragic Hero Ethan Frome

a tragedy due to the murder, or possible death during rough sex in the park, but the players were of an elite class. Similarly, to...

Dorothy Allison's 'Question of Class,' William Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' and Class Distinctions

In five pages these two stories are compared in terms of their presentations of class consciousness where distinctions are clearly...

Social Conventions and Lily Bart in The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

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

19th Century Naturalism and Realism

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

Edith Wharton's Life, Writings, and Men

to ask her to marry him, but he remained her closest and most enduring friend throughout his life. Strangely, however, it was not...

Men in the Life and Work of Edith Wharton II

In four pages this paper discusses how the men in Edith Wharton's novels Summer and Ethan Frome reflect the actual men in her life...

Female Protagonists in Chopin, Wharton, and Gilman

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...

Thematic Analysis of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and Ethan Frome and “The House of Mirth”: The Themes of Loneliness, Isolation, and Silence

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

Ethan Frome: Tragic Hero

old families and the nouveau riche, who had made their fortunes in more recent years" (Books and Writers). For the most part this ...