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Edith Wharton's "Roman Fever" and Zora Neale Hurston's "The Gilded Six-Bits", 2001.
This paper contrasts and compares Edith Wharton's "Roman Fever" and Zora Neale Hurston's "The Gilded Six-Bits."
2,605 words (approx. 10.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 78.95
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This paper is a look at Edith Wharton's, "Roman Fever," and Zora Neale Hurston's "The Gilded Six-Bits." Edith Wharton was a white American woman of opulence and class, while Zola Neale Hurston was an African-American who was born in Eatonville, Florida, occupied primarily by black families who have historically been struggling for economic sufficiency and comfort, but have historically been hampered by racial prejudice. The paper looks at how the two celebrated authors write about love, marriage and family, women and their overt well as covert emotions and desires, with the authors' respective and opposing cultures and social classes as backdrops.
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"Both stories deal with marriage. In Wharton's, the marriages of childhood friends Alida and Grace had to be cultivated, for they belonged to the genteel class of human beings at that time. They had to try all means to feign happiness and of being loved and their mates' fidelity to them. How they looked to the outside world weighed much more than how they really felt inside, and that was the core of Victorian values of propriety - the external, heartbreaking, mind-blowing type. This was the price to pay for belonging up there and everything that went with being high above. In contrast, Hurston's characters, Joe and his Missy May, treasured their marriage and had a common line of pleasures, including the pursuit of a few gilded coins, chocolate kisses and a baby. Their simple joys were more accessible and this made marriage more workable and forgiving offenses possible. Although both authors had unhappy marriages, Hurston nevertheless valued marriage as an institution that could save an individual or else saw marriage as a stabilizing force like nothing else in a society."
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Edith Wharton, 2000.
This paper is a biography of author Edith Wharton and a review of her novels.
2,550 words (approx. 10.2 pages), 15 sources, $ 77.95
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This paper examines the life and literary works of celebrated novelist Edith Wharton. The author discusses Wharton's early biographical influences, which led to her main themes in "Ethan Frome", "Age of Innocence", and "The Old Maid". The paper also addresses how Wharton wrote brilliantly on the issue of the rigid confinements of her own aristocratic society, impossible love, and characters who stoically accepted their fates.
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"Edith Wharton was born January 24th, 1862 to wealthy parents in traditional old New York . Governesses and tutors privately educated Wharton at her home and abroad. At a young age, she displayed interest in writing but was discouraged away from the arts by her family. In the late 1800s, women were still considered only worthy of becoming beautiful objects and getting married. Women were supposed to act like naive, innocent children. Her mother felt that Wharton should not pursue writing. Nevertheless, Wharton completed her first novella at age fourteen and published a collection of verses two years later."
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Edith Wharton, 2005.
Analysis of the characters and the sentiment they reflect in Edith Wharton's stories, specifically in "Roman Fever" and "The Other Two".
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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This paper briefly summarizes the plots of two of Edith Wharton's stories and then examines the social statement Wharton was making about the times in which she lived. The paper looks at Wharton's treatment of the gender roles, class roles, and relationships in Victorian society and how her stories depict people of the Victorian era as having a dualism of behavior - the outer personification of conformity, and the inner, private life that allows for deviancy and experimentation.
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"It's a natural part of life to question the past as one looks into the future, however, there are certain regrets that mark the passing of particular lives that most people would rather not have as a part of their own lives. The stories of Edith Wharton, specifically Roman Fever and The Other Two, embrace the past in a manner that brings to light the changing social configuration of the present. The stories are imbued with aspects of Romanticism and grounded in the Victorian ethic but wander into the changing social world of the modern era. The intricacies of time, place, love and relationships have a strong influence on the best of people; however, it seems as though they are a tidal wave of authority to the weak and the superior. Wharton's characters reflect this sentiment, that strength of character is not always a matter of beauty, intelligence or social standing but, rather, a belief in oneself as the vehicle for happiness."
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"Ethan Frome" by Edith Wharton, 1991.
This paper discusses the novel, "Ethan Frome" by Edith Wharton:
Setting, characters, narrator, plot, tragic elements and themes.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 3 sources, $ 47.95
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"The purpose of this paper is to discuss the setting, characters and various other elements of the novel, "Ethan Frome" by Edith Wharton.
Starkfield is aptly named. It is a very hard place in which to spend the winter. The landscapes of this community are lonely, silent and gloomy. The moods of the people of this town frequently swing with the changes in the weather, which at times is almost unendurable. To a certain degree, the nature of Starkfield helps to explain Ethan Frome's relatively austere personality, as well as the morose atmosphere of the town itself and the country which envelopes it.
The narrator is curious to find out why Ethan cannot seem to get away from Starkfield. However, in the search to discover why, the narrator finds out that the people in Starkfield are ... "
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Edith Wharton's "The Age Of Innocence", 1994.
This paper examines the differences and parallels between the novel "The Age Of Innocence" by Edith Wharton and the film directed by Martin Scorsese.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 2 sources, $ 39.95
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"The translation of a book into a motion picture can be a difficult process and is made all the more difficult when the screenwriters feel the need to maintain respect for the structure of the book, for its characterizations, and for its themes. This is why it is usually believed that less literary works are more easily translated, while well-respected literary works present many problems because the author has already presented his or her story in a dense and complex way that marries form and content. The form of a film is quite different from that of a novel, utilizing images rather than imagery, pictures instead of words, actions instead of descriptions, and so on. the recent film production of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence is an example in which the filmmakers--director Martin Scorsese and screenwriters Martin Scorsese and Jay Cocks... "
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Edith Wharton: Life And Views On Women Of Her Time, 2002.
In this essay, Wharton's fiction is considered as metaphors for the gender conflicts of Wharton's own history.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 8 sources, $ 53.95
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Edith Wharton's works, "The Age of Innocence" and "Roman Fever" each exemplify contradictions that control women's lives, and Wharton's stories raise these struggles to character studies of women. This paper concludes that Wharton's women often personify the effects of social oppression in their relations with each other.
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The Relation Between Edith Wharton's Novels and her Life, 2001.
How Wharton created novels that accurately reflected life and society of her time.
1,963 words (approx. 7.9 pages), 4 sources, $ 62.95
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"The values of the societies that are depicted in the works of Edith Wharton are the same values that governed the society that she was raised in. Her works all revolve around central characters that belong to an elite society with firm rules of behavior and conduct, societies that closely resembled the ones that she herself lived and grew up in. Paying close attention to these rules and rituals, Edith Wharton was able to create convincing societies in her novels and stories that were as scathing as they were accurate."
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Edith Wharton, "Ethan Frome", 1993.
Examines the author's life and the novel's themes, social views, characters, crises and philosophy.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 7 sources, $ 79.95
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"Edith Wharton's novella Ethan Frome was first published in 1911. The title character of the book is a poor man who has a sickly wife, Zeena. Ethan is frustrated in his efforts to help his wife as well as in his inability to express his love for her young cousin, Mattie. Because of his poverty and social conditioning, Ethan is trapped "into a world of self.destruction" ("Women and Literature: ..." 48). However, Ethan Frome is not the only character who suffers during the story. Both Zeena and Mattie are also trapped by social conditions. In fact, the plight of these women is made worse by the fact that they are never given a chance to express how they feel. The strict male point of view in the narration of Ethan Frome helps reflect the treatment that women experienced during that time in history.
Edith Wharton is one of the most important women writers in ..."
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"The House Of Mirth" by Edith Wharton, 1993.
A look at how materialistic society determined the life, fate and death of the character Lily.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 4 sources, $ 39.95
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"This study will examine how society affected the character of Lily in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth. Specifically, the study will explore how the society in which she lived determined her life, her fate, and her death.
Essentially, Lily is a woman who lives in a materialistic and class-conscious society, and she has no talent or desire to live outside of that materialistic structure. She has been raised to live the soft life of elites, and she spends her energies trying to figure out how to do so. At the same time, it is clear that the author values Lily highly, not so much for what she does but for what she is unable to do because of the materialistic obsessions of the society in which she is entrapped. As we read in the Introduction to the novel, "a frivolous society can acquire significance through what its frivolity destroys"..."
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"Ethan Frome" ( Edith Wharton ) and "The Awakening" ( Kate Chopin ), 1995.
Compares the male and female characters' responses to restrictive social and familial roles.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 2 sources, $ 79.95
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"Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome and Kate Chopin's The Awakening are novels about the traps that society creates for the individual. In both books suicide is seen as the only way out of the constricted circumstances in which the characters are expected to live. In both books, however, the authors also make it clear that society's confinement of the individual does not affect just their suffering heroes. In fact, these social constraints affect most of the characters. In Chopin's novel, the dramatic difference between Leonce Pontellier and Edna Pontellier is in his choice to adapt to his cage and her becoming conscious of the cage and finding its constraints unbearable. In Wharton's novel, both the Fromes suffer from the cage in which they find themselves, but their responses to their entrapment, while they differ in content, are alike in form as each blames ..."
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Morality in Edith Wharton's "Ethan Frome", 2002.
A book review, focusing on the theme of emotional and psychological complications of morality.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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This paper centers around the psychological and emotional trauma associated with the love triangle within the novel. The main characters are studied and their relationships with each other are discussed in depth, focusing on the role played by morality in these relationships.
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"Taking the moral high ground is preached as the correct thing to do. However, the complications from walking the straight and narrow path are often overlooked. Edith Wharton, in her stunning novel Ethan Frome, addresses the psychological and emotional trauma associated with a love triangle. The inability to attain personal goals, loneliness, depression, jealousy, and suicidal tendencies plague the main characters, eventually ruining their lives."
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"The Awakening"( Kate Chopin ), "Yellow Wallpaper "( Charlotte Gilman ) & "Roman Fever" ( Edith Wharton ), 1999.
Examines portrayals of women & marriage in novel & two short stories.
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"The purpose of this research is to examine Stephen Crane's use of literary realism and literary naturalism in The Red Badge of Courage and "The Open Boat." The plan of the research will be to set forth the pattern of ideas in each work and then to discuss ways in which each story creates a picture of the events and of the behavior and thoughts of the people involved in them.
The pattern of ideas emerging in The Red Badge of Courage is in large measure a function of the emergence of the psychologially authentic temperament in Henry Fleming, the central characer. The progression of events in the novel describes a voyage of self-discovery, i.e., the discovery of an authentic, realistic self, as opposed to a romantic notion of the self. In each suceeding episode, Fleming attains increasing insight into his own nature and into the nature of the world, which provides a great "
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Wharton's 'The House of Mirth", 2002.
The paper discusses the destructive nature of unrestrained ambition as highlighted by the character of Lily Bart in Edith Wharton's novel 'The House of Mirth".
1,780 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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The author demonstrates that the novel, 'The House of Mirth", revolves around a young beautiful woman (Lily Bart) who aspires to join the upper class and in her quest for success ruins her own life. The paper studies the many faces of Lily's ambition and shows why it turned into a negative force for the protagonist. The author feels that Edith Wharton's strength was exposing readers to both sides of ambition.
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"She was proud of the fact that unlike other women, she did not think that marriage was the solution to all her problems. She did not want to be an ordinary woman and thus marriage for its own sake was not important to her. In Book I, we see the rebellious side of Lily's personality. It is here that we learn of some really important things about this character and her wild rather unrealistic ambitions. She harbors some foolish beliefs that make it impossible for her see beyond the obvious."
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The Theme of Isolation in Wharton's "Ethan Frome", 2005.
Describes how the harshness of the cold and isolation of winter is symbolic of Ethan's defeated vitality in this novel by Edith Wharton.
1,184 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 40.95
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The theme of isolation winds its way through the entirety of Edith Wharton's novel "Ethan Frome". The paper shows that from the name of the old farmhouse where Ethan resides, to the desperation to leave said isolation, the reader is able to see the impact that seclusion has on the characters of "Ethan Frome".
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"As the reader begins to develop this sense of isolation in the novel, they also begin to see certain events that keep these characters from breaking out of the inevitable seclusion. It seems as thought Ethan sacrifices his freedom as a result of his fear of isolation, which creates a unrelenting and vicious cycle of bleak events. For example, chapter 8 opens with a description of Ethan's cold and barren room. He once did have warmth in the room, but felt it necessary to give the stove which kept his room liveable to Mattie when she came to visit. As a result, Ethan was forced to live in the unbearable cold, which the narrator described as "uninhabitable for several months out of the year" (66)."
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Comparing the Novels of Jewett and Wharton, 2006.
A comparison of "The Country of the Pointed Firs", by Sarah Orne Jewett, and "Ethan Frome" by Edith Wharton.
2,981 words (approx. 11.9 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 88.95
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The paper introduces, discusses, and analyzes two books, "The Country of the Pointed Firs" by Sarah Orne Jewett, and "Ethan Frome" by Edith Wharton. The paper compares and contrasts the two works, especially in the areas of local color and characterization. The paper proposes that discriminating readers might find few commonalities between these novels - "The Country of the Pointed Firs" is a sentimental novel full of local color and vivid characters, while "Ethan Frome," is a gloomy novel of love, betrayal, and destiny. The paper further discusses how both novels contain vivid characterization and attention to the local color of the setting that adds vast detail to the works.
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"Critics may not consider "Ethan Frome" to be a local color novel, but it seems to contain many of the elements local color contains - an emphasis on small town life, use of the local vernacular, and certainly attention to everyday details. For example, early in Wharton's work, the Narrator paints a vibrant picture of the area's winter bleakness. He says, "When I had been there a little longer, and had seen this phase of crystal clearness followed by long stretches of sunless cold; when the storms of February had pitched their white tents about the devoted village and the wild cavalry of March winds had charged down to their support" (Wharton 6)."
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