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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...

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 and the Literary Device of Illness

In five pages and an outline consisting of one page this paper discusses how gender and class roles as well as characterization in...

Family Responsibility and Conspicuous Consumption in House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

In five pages this paper discusses how in this Edith Wharton novel, family responsibility is compromised by conspicuous consumptio...

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...

War Stories of Edith Wharton

In six pages the ways in which Edith Wharton drew upon her experiences living in France at the start of the First World War as ins...

3 Fictional Stories Analyzed

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Austerism Philosophy and Adolf Loos' Art

In seven pages the modern austerism philosophy is applied to 4 sites designed by Adolf Loos. Five sources are cited in the biblio...

Nordstrom And Anita's Apparel - Case Study

with no questions asked. This provides a cushion for employees in terms of making sales to customers who are on the fence. What ...

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

In three pages Frome's character is analyzed as it pertains to his 3 failures. There is no bibliography included....

Winter in Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

they first met, I could just imagine the cold and brutality of the winters in Starkfield. Within the story though, Ethan finds the...

Entrapment in Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

In ten pages three main characters are examined in terms of how they reflect Wharton's theme of entrapment in the novel. Five sou...

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...

Hesitant Love in Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton and Daisy Miller by Henry James

for reasons that he cannot fathom. "Daisys beauty is to be apprehended and judged, then, according to its degree of artifice. It...

Roman Fever by Edith Wharton

In four pages this novel is analyzed through the use of literary elements of protagonist, antagonist, plot, setting, conflict, and...

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...

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

both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...

'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 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...

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...

Black Identity in the Writings of Langston Hughes and W.E.B. Du Bois

self through the eyes of others, have become touchstones for thinking about race in America. In addition to these enduring concept...

1855 to 1875 American Folk Pottery Industry Historiography

also serve to illuminate a lost way of living. In spite of al the missing history, for the last twenty-five years scholars have ...