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

the century is likely to demonstrate far more social constraints and strict behavioural codes which mediate against gender equalit...

If we look at the way that conspicuous consumption today and in the past there is still an element of class differentiation in the...

about, but as the tension rises, a perspective that is discussed in the section on tone within the story, the reader senses that t...

on his feelings because of the societal mores of his day. The closest town, Starkefield, symbolizes these mores. Central to the ...

In five pages this paper presents a character analysis of Edith Wharton's heroine Lily Bart in The House of Mirth and argues that ...

In twenty pages this paper examines naturalism and realism of the 19th century in a consideration of Edith Wharton's The House of ...

In five pages this paper examines how in 'The Spaces of Ethan Frome' Judith Fryer critically evaluates the famous novella by Edith...

In 5 pages the themes of innocence and experience as they are depicted in these Victorian and post Victorian literary works The Ho...

This struggle is also seen in the character of Archer who is intrigued by her uniqueness. He is stifled by society and by the dema...

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...

it threatened who she was as a member of the white race and the upper classes. Therefore, it can be seen that Ednas desire to pa...

opportunity to exercise their intellects--they went away to college, and if they were not encouraged to enter business or a profes...

"Make connections between a movie and...the culture" (Corrigan 7). In this novel, and film, costumes, or clothing, was a very impo...

and large, the wealthy is a class of leisure. This upper class mentality is expressed in Whartons (2000) House of Mirth. The nov...

was a woman who was independent, has affairs, leaves her husband, isnt interested in being the sole person responsible for the upb...

social life. Symbolic interactionism strives to control member behavior as a means by which to represent the core element of the ...

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...

old families and the nouveau riche, who had made their fortunes in more recent years" (Books and Writers). For the most part this ...

It is through her that Wharton asks if women, trapped as they are in domesticity, "can make themselves and their ideals present in...

In the case of Charity she is prone to lying in the fields and feel her sexuality become alive, as she feels the earth...

of a visual masterpiece that demonstrates that Scorsese is an artist who understands the tone of the original work from which he c...

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...

Penn Warren, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and The Age Of Innocence by Edith Wharton. All of these novels ...

such endeavors she discovers that this is not the case. She tries to escape through passion, but finds that she is still a woman i...

to ask her to marry him, but he remained her closest and most enduring friend throughout his life. Strangely, however, it was not...

In four pages this paper discusses how the men in Edith Wharton's novels Summer and Ethan Frome reflect the actual men in her life...

In seven pages this essay compares how each author presents common protagonists as deeply complex human beings. There are no othe...

married, sexually repressed, and (like her heroine) felt extremely ill-at-ease in the world in which she lived. The conflicts she ...

In 5 pages this paper examines how renunciation is thematically depicted in the novel's 3 major characters and within the featured...