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

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...

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

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 ...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

of his mother during her long illness, however, he primarily, marries her because he does not want to be alone during the long New...

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

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...

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

In seven pages this essay compares how each author presents common protagonists as deeply complex human beings. There are no othe...

In five pages this analysis of Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton focuses upon the characters' lives. There are no other sources cited....

In five pages and an outline consisting of one page this paper discusses how gender and class roles as well as characterization in...

bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story" (Wharton). Its his c...

adopted this view of Zeena. In fact, Elizabeth Ammons in her 1980 text on Frome, draws parallels between Whartons narrative and th...

In 5 pages this paper examines how forbidden love is represented in these novels. There are 2 sources cited in the bibliography....

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...

he was forced to abandon his studies in physics and engineering in order to carry out the duty of returning to his home in Starkfi...

As bleak and hopeless as this story is, we are also able to see that Mattie and Ethan genuinely do love each other, and...

opens through the view of the narrator, a young man who ends up spending the night at Ethans house because of a chance blizzard. H...

for reasons that he cannot fathom. "Daisys beauty is to be apprehended and judged, then, according to its degree of artifice. It...