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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton and Renunciation

In five pages this paper examines how renunciation is emphasized in the social structure and in 3 major characters of The Age of I...

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....

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...

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...

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton and Irony

most of the scandals and mysteries that had smouldered under the unruffled surface of New York society within the last fifty years...

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...

Comparative Analysis of The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares these texts in terms of changing social perceptions of women. There are no other...

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...

Sore Throats Can Lead to Rheumatic Fever

This paper seeks to drill home the message that strep throat and scarlet fever are serious illnesses and need to be treated by phy...

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...

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...

Roman War Memorials and the Roman's View of Death

original fight. When there was a positive win, the soldiers would march through the street much like they do when a baseball tea...

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...

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...

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...

Livy's History of Rome/Heroes & Villains

king also ordered killed. They were subsequently left to die of exposure and were discovered by a she-wolf. Discovered by the king...