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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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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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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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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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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"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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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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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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In her beautifully crafted novel, "Ethan Frome," Wharton presents the winters of Starkfield, Massachusetts as one of the major deterrents in the success of Ethan Frome's dreams. Our narrator specifies that Ethan has lived in Starkfield "too many winters" (Wharton 181). ... In comparison, Wharton uses the seasons of summer and spring to mirror Mattie's personality and moments of happiness she shared with Ethan. Wharton refers to Mattie by saying that she "always looked like a window that has caught the sunset" (188). ... Wharton uses this characterization to show h...

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While reading "Ethan Frome" by Edith Wharton, there were many themes and imagery that was used to develop the environment to help illustrate the different parallels between Ethan Frome, the main character, and the many circumstances and feelings of his decisions and experiences. ... Edith Wharton frequently wrote about unhappy marriages, and herself divorced a mentally-ill husband at a time when divorce was a hot topic. Wharton was particularly critical of American marriages in which the husband looked down on the wife because she took no interest in his business affairs, and the wife retalia...

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In the book, "Ethan Frome," by Edith Wharton there are many different symbols that are all very important to the plot. ... The first mention of the cat is as they're sitting down for dinner and "the cat, unbidden, jumped between them into Zeena's empty chair" (Wharton 73). ... It saw Ethan's hand resting on Mattie's and "The cat, profiting by this unusual demonstration, tried to effect an unnoticed retreat, and in doing so backed into the pickle dish, which fell to the floor with a crash" (Wharton 74). ...

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Roman Fever Edith Wharton Secrets and deceit mark many relationships. ... Their friendship may mask feelings of resentment and jealously, as the case in the short story "Roman Fever" by Edith Wharton. ...

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Roman Fever by Edith Wharton Types of Story: Subtle story of envy and revenge Setting: Two wealthy American widows lunching in a restaurant in Rome with a view of the Palatine and the Forum. ...

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Throughout The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, a love affair between Ellen Oleska and Newland Archer plays out in an unconventional way. ... This is extremely significant in this book in that Wharton is commenting on the fact that in this society where status means so much, people must constantly pretend to be joyous all of the time. ...

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The novel Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton can be considered a tragedy because the main character, Ethan, has one tragic flaw. ... In the novel Wharton states, "After the mortal silence of his long imprisonment, Zeena's volubility was music in his ears" (29). ...

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The novel Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton can be considered a tragedy because the main character, Ethan, has one tragic flaw. ... In the novel Wharton states, "After the mortal silence of his long imprisonment, Zeena's volubility was music in his ears" (29). ...

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Of the characters in Edith Wharton's novel, Ethan Frome, Ethan Frome is the most intriguing and profound. His characteristics and mannerisms make the reader sympathize with his pathetic existence and also feel his loneliness and exclusion from society. "He seemed a part of the mute melancholy land...

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Critics have claimed that Starkfield is an important character in the novel, while it is not a person character. Starkfield is another side of Ethan. This book does a good job of comparing and contrasting Ethan to Starkfield. Ethan and Starkfield share many similarities. At the same time, Ethan and ...

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"Ethan Frome" by Edith Wharton is about a man named Ethan and his struggle to find happiness. He lives in a run down farm with his wife Zeena who thinks that she is sick. After Taking care of Zeena for six years they hire Mattie to help around the house, Ethan falls in love with her and they have ...

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In the novel, Ethan Frome, there are two women named Zeena and Mattie. They are cousins and have very different personalities, but in some ways are alike. Edith Wharton (author of the novel) represents the character of Zeena as a cold-hearted, manipulative, self-absorbed woman who manipulates Etha...

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Naturalism was a major literary movement of the late 1800s that focused on the concept of realism to give reason that conditions of social society, heredity, and the environment had a great influence on how the human character was formed. In the United States, there have been many profound authors w...

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Title of book: Ethan Frome Author: Edith Wharton The book Ethan Frome starts set in Starkfield Massachusetts with the narrator of the book wondering about Ethan Frome (the man) and asking people in the town what they know Ethan. ...

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