Edith Wharton is one of America's most celebrated female novelists, with an esteemed devotion to fiction works. Wharton was born Edith Jones in 1862, into an upper class New York City family. ... Jones finally married Edward Wharton in 1885, though and though her marriage soon went to ruins, she remained married to Wharton for over twenty years. Edith Wharton finally divorced her husband in 1913, but never relinquished his last name. ... Wharton had overcome a great hurdle in literature. ...

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Edith Wharton and Mary E. ... Edith Wharton and Mary Wilkins Freeman wrote about the hardships they faced, and the personal struggles that came with being a woman. ... Unlike Freeman, Edith Wharton was raised in a life of extravagance. ... Edith Wharton fought for a different presentation of women through her writing in a different way. ... Edith Wharton and Mary Freeman are considered to of the greatest American authors of all time. ...

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(Shidler 1) Edith Wharton, creator of Newland Archer and writer of The Age of Innocence, was also an aristocrat. Wharton expressed her life as an aristocrat from New York in this novel. Aristocrats such as Newland Archer and Edith Wharton are very well educated and deal with a very busy schedule around many people and things. ... "Edith Wharton." ... Wharton, Edith. ...

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This is especially true of Edith Wharton's novel Ethan Frome, as its prevelant death imagery leads many readers to predict the death of Mattie Silver. ... In actuality, Edith Wharton surrounds Ethan with death imagery to illustrate that his life is in fact a living death. In order to remind the reader of the death of Ethan's hopes, dreams and future happiness Edith Wharton continually employs haunting death imagery in relation to the stark New England setting in which he lives. ... Wharton uses additional death imagery to depict Ethan's orchard as being full of "starved a...

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The story "Roman Fever", by Edith Wharton, is about two women and the relationship that they have established over a long period of friendship. ... Edith Wharton uses different types of writing and situations with the characters in the story to add excitement to the story. ... Edith Wharton does a good job of using irony to give "Roman Fever" an interesting twist. ... Just like she uses irony in the title of the story, Edith Wharton also uses irony in "Roman Fever" in the letter. ... Edith Wharton also uses irony through different people in the story "Roman Fever". ...

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With special reference to Edith Wharton's use of language, show how the New England Setting and its associated imagery contributes to the power of "Ethan Frome". ... Wharton uses and then repeats this phrase to pose questions about Starkfield, Ethan Frome, and the significance of winter. ... Wharton incorporates repetition of the strong verb, "must" in addition to engaging the reader directly, "you". ... Wharton applies "exanimate" images of "starved apple-trees writhing", implying death and decay. ... Wharton uses the "L" symbolically as with each bout of tragedy, part of Ethan dies...

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In the book The Age of Innocence written by Edith Wharton, the main characters go through their days trying to live up to the standards of the society of "Old New York", and worry about the reputation of their family names more than that of their own well being. ... Therefore Wharton is saying that women are constantly in battle with the Societies in which they live to free themselves as an individual from the social entrapment. ...

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In the book The Age of Innocence written by Edith Wharton, the main characters go through their days trying to live up to the standards of the society of "Old New York", and worry about the reputation of their family names more than that of their own well being. ... Therefore Wharton is saying that women are constantly in battle with the Societies in which they live to free themselves as an individual from the social entrapment....

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Edith Wharton's short story, "The Debt" from her book "Tales of Men and Ghosts", does a great job proving the moral through the title of the story. ... Although the title of the story was called, "The Debt", I believe Edith Wharton was trying to show that it wasn't that Galen had a debt to pay to Professor Lanfear, it was the fact that he just corrected Professor Lanfears theories to better the education of others who also studied his research....

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Ethan Frome was considered by many to be Edith Wharton's finest novel. ... Edith Wharton was born in 1862 to a wealthy family involved in New York City society. ... Her last novel Bunner Sisters was published in 1909, and Edith Wharton passed away in 1937. Wharton was a writer of the twentieth century. ... Also, Wharton was fond of matching colors with personalities. ...

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Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, is one of those novels. According to Elisabeth Ammons, Wharton seems to base this fictional fairy tale on the familiar American story of Snow White. ... Although Wharton's decision for the name may have been coincidental, it is certainly one more link between the two. ... "(20) Clearly, Wharton is trying to establish the story's ambiance as black and white. ... While Wharton writes the events of her life, unintentionally, she has created a novel similar to the fairy tail of Snow White. ...

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Writers like Edith Wharton created female characters with wider opportunities outside of traditional marriage, which proved totally misleading then. ... Apart from works on dramatization of the plight of women and creation of a literature of the urban experience, artists like Hemingway, Wharton and Robert Frost continued works of the pastoral or rural spirit and that of regionalism and local color. ...

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The novel "Ethan Frome", written by Edith Wharton in 1911 depicts the life of the living dead; the life of Ethan Frome. ... Through the use of various themes, such as love, freedom, and morality, Wharton presents a character who lives a life of quiet desperation. ... Wharton illuminates the idea of Zeena faking her sickness in order to better control Ethan, knowing that if they ever did find a buyer and move, she would lose control of Him. ... Wharton personifies the house cat as Zeena when her body is unavailable. ... Wharton juxtaposes the trains freedom alongside its feeling of...

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Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton allows the symbols in the book to convey her reoccurring theme in this novel. ... The symbols Edith Wharton has placed through out the novel is able to bring up this reoccurring theme of Ethan's passions and constraints placed on him by society. Also even though Ethan's wife leaves during the novel her present is still felt very strongly though out the house though symbols Edith Wharton had placed in the novel. ... Edith Wharton showed how her symbols were able to relate to her re-occurring theme through out the book. ... This is how Edith Wharton is ...

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Edith Wharton applies this declaration in her novel, Ethan Frome. ... These methods help us as the reader, to form an opinion about characters that Edith Wharton has created. ... Edith Wharton does a marvelous job in illuminating for us, the main character, Ethan Frome. ... It is altered when interacting with the many unique people that Edith Wharton has created. ... Edith Wharton makes the readers want to cringe while reading about her. ...

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Edith Wharton wrote Ethan Frome to juxtapose what people thought about rural northeastern life. ... But, Edith Wharton twists their fate one more time so that both live, but are crippled both physically and mentally. ... In Conclusion, Edith Wharton used colors many times to shadow the essence and feelings of the characters. ... In the end, Edith Wharton creates a scenario that is truly worse than death and makes the reader want to live their life a little harder....

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PURPOSE: To examine the character of Zenobia Pierce in the novel "Ethan Frome" by Edith Wharton. ... The Character of Zenobia Pierce in Wharton's "Ethan Frome" Zenobia Pierce, known as Zeena throughout the novel "Ethan Frome" by Edith Wharton, is a very unhappy, bitter woman. Wharton seems to depict her ex-husband, Edward Wharton, through the remarkable details she uses to characterize Zeena. ... As Wharton remarks, "Zeena seemed to understand his case at a glance. ... Wharton indicates she is a hideous, cold-blooded, passionless creature. ...

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"Ethan Frome," by Edith Wharton, is a short, but beautiful, novel about a poor farmer who lives in New England with his sad and angry wife Zeena, and her cousin Mattie. Ethan married Zeena out of a sense of obligation because she had cared for his ailing mother. The marriage isn't a happy one, wit...

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In Edith Wharton's novel Ethan Frome, winter is personified as an evil that traps citizens into the dark and gloomy wintry Starkfield. ... Edith Wharton begins this tragic tale of heartbreak and loneliness by introducing a "bleak and unapproachable- (1) Frome. ... Edith Wharton wants the reader to feel empathy for the characters and this is the technique that she uses to make her novel triumphant. ... Wharton also makes it clear that there is realism in fiction. ...

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Through out the story of Ethan Frome, the author, Edith Wharton, uses the color red as a major symbol in the story. Wharton put a twist on the concept of the symbol, normally used to represent love and passion, which is one of her uses, but also it signifies the sinful thoughts and transgressions that Ethan and Mattie think about so often. ... Wharton often uses the color red in scenes where Ethan and Mattie are alone such as the one on the way back from town after Mattie's dance at the church. ... Wharton used the color red again in a major scene with the two alone. ... In this tragi...

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The story Roman Fever by Edith Wharton is about two women and the ongoing jealousy, a result of a past love affair. ... Edith shows through a third person omniscient view that schemes spurred from jealousy will boomerang right back at the plotter. ... Although the story is told from a third person omniscient point of view, Wharton focuses the main part of the story on Mrs. ... Wharton achieves this by presenting both of the women's opinions of each other. ... Wharton proves this by narrating the story in a third person omniscient view, making it possible for readers to observe the thou...

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The author, Edith Wharton, masterfully describes the geography and weather, to set the tone and mental conditions of the main characters. ... Edith Wharton is able to add the psychological elements of the characters by way of the setting. ...

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In the novel, Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton uses setting as a symbol. A symbol is something, which represents or suggests a relationship or association. Throughout the novel, the setting represents both the character's moods, and the characters themselves. Setting is constantly used to describe Matti...

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Ethan's Three Important Women In the novelette of Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton three characters seem to grope onto Ethan. ... ""(Wharton- ) Mattie Silver has a huge effect on Ethan's life. ... Ethan was left with a limp and Mattie became bound to a chair and most of the time ill. "" (Wharton-) Zeena is the most influential person in Ethan's life. ... She brings a strong will and a caring heart. "" (Wharton-) Each of the three women helps not only to bring about a change in Ethan but also to bring about a change in themselves. ...

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