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

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...

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...

through different characters" (p. 268). While this theme is worked out principally through Newland Archers yearning for the "free"...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In 5 pages this paper examines 19th century female social oppression within the context of these two literary works. There are 5 ...

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

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

In nine pages this paper discusses Romantic literature of the past and present with a consideration of female authors Fannie Flagg...

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

In six pages the ways in which Edith Wharton drew upon her experiences living in France at the start of the First World War as ins...

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

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...

Delphin by the Forum for a clandestine meeting. This Delphin Slade happened to be engaged to Alida at the time. Alida says that sh...

both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...

formality and propriety was incorrect and not only have the main characters deceived each other, but Wharton has been successful i...

society (Books and Writers). "He did not much believe in the possibility of individual freedom but emphasized the importance of ex...

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

In four pages this novel is analyzed through the use of literary elements of protagonist, antagonist, plot, setting, conflict, and...

In three pages Frome's character is analyzed as it pertains to his 3 failures. There is no bibliography included....

they first met, I could just imagine the cold and brutality of the winters in Starkfield. Within the story though, Ethan finds the...

In ten pages three main characters are examined in terms of how they reflect Wharton's theme of entrapment in the novel. Five sou...

is mystical and unexplainable, in the house. They understand that they cannot necessarily see what is taking place, or truly put t...

of legal scholars and justices like these, the concept of the divine origin of justice and law was retained until relatively recen...