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Edith Wharton's House of Mirth, Age of Innocence and Naturalism

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...

Henry James' The American and Female Objectification

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...

Beauty, Consumption and Habits of Thought

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

Major Themes in "A Hazard of New Fortunes" and "The House of Mirth

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

House of Mirth

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

Edith Wharton, Charles Dickens, and Charlotte Bronte on Experience and Innocence

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

Literary Portrayals of the Conflict Between Individuals and Society

In five pages this paper examines how the individual v. society conflict was portrayed in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, R...

Paul’s Case by Willa Cather

soul to the devil for what he desires. This relates well to Paul for he is a man who will do anything to live, if even only for a ...

Feminism in Nature

in charge of the farm by her father when he dies. The farm is not left to her brothers or to Alexandrias mother but to her. The st...

Concepts in Short Stories

cases from the point of view that the person on trial is guilty. There is no presumption of innocence until proven guilty-he start...

"Paul's Case"

expression. He had no desire to become an actor, any more than he had to become a musician. He felt no necessity to do any of thes...

Marriage as a Problematic Institution

and vows that her life will be different. Due to her assimilation of the American ethos, she rejects the Judaic tenet that she is ...

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...

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...

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...

Sexuality in the Work of Crane and Wharton

In the case of Charity she is prone to lying in the fields and feel her sexuality become alive, as she feels the earth...

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...

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 ...

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...

Family Responsibility and Conspicuous Consumption in House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

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

Society and Women in Willa Cather's O Pioneers!

In five pages this paper examines how social outcasts were influenced by an independent and strong woman in an analysis of O Pione...

Thomas Wolfe's Child By Tiger, Willa Cather's Paul's Case, and Morality

In five pages a comparative analysis of how morality is represented in each work is presented. There are no other sources listed....

Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence and Renunciation

In 5 pages this paper examines how renunciation is thematically depicted in the novel's 3 major characters and within the featured...

Edith Wharton's Roman Fever

In five page this research paper examines the female characters revelations and what they say about their competition and their li...

Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop

the people that they are there to convert, that they find peace for themselves, and are able to build a presence for the Church wi...

Symbolism of Man and Nature in Willa Cather's O Pioneers

has not lost beauty, only become more spiritually connected with the land as she takes on the guise of earth. This is because she ...

Edith Wharton's 'His Father's Son' and Point of View

third person (not a character in the story)" (Peterson elements.html). From this basic understanding of the element of point of...

Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and Love

emotional release. This may be seen as giving the different types of love a balance. This book was published in 1913, a...

Comparative Thematic Analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'A New Leaf' and Edith Wharton's 'Roman Fever'

much of a respected figure. One author, in noting this states that his "playboy image impeded the proper assessment of his work" (...

Anita Loos and Edith Wharton's Simple Folk

married, sexually repressed, and (like her heroine) felt extremely ill-at-ease in the world in which she lived. The conflicts she ...