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Analyzing Summer and Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

5 Novels and Questions Answered

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

3 Fictional Stories Analyzed

reflecting the exact opposite of those ruled by determinism. Having adequately grasped the meaning behind Jewetts perspectives, i...

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...

Shaping the Narrative: The Narrators in “Ethan Frome” and “The Secret Sharer”

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

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...

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...

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

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

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...

Past and Present Romantic Literature

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

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...

Professor's House by Willa Cather and Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

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

Zeena's Symbolism in Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

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...

'Roman Fever' by Edith Wharton and the Author's Deception Cover the Uses of Control and Formality

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

The Character of Alida Slade in 'Roman Fever' by Edith Wharton

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

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...

Actual Innocence

wrongly jailed" (Boyer). The first case they discuss is that of Marion Coakley, who "served more than two years in prison becaus...

Examples of Feminist Criticism in Wharton and Chopin

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

Wharton's "Ethan Frome" and the Concept of "Duty"

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...

Twentieth Century Literature and Gender

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

Misguided Intentent in Literary Characters

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

William Wordsworth and William Blake's Childhood Themes

this particular poem the first four lines seem to offer us a great deal of foundation for understanding the symbolic nature of you...