YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton and Renunciation
Essays 31 - 60
In 5 pages this paper examines how forbidden love is represented in these novels. There are 2 sources cited in the bibliography....
In five pages this paper discusses how in this Edith Wharton novel, family responsibility is compromised by conspicuous consumptio...
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...
In five pages and an outline consisting of one page this paper discusses how gender and class roles as well as characterization in...
In nine pages this paper discusses Romantic literature of the past and present with a consideration of female authors Fannie Flagg...
Relationships between mothers and daughters are contrasted and compared as they are represented in Bastard Out of Carolina by Doro...
In five pages this analysis of Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton focuses upon the characters' lives. There are no other sources cited....
reflecting the exact opposite of those ruled by determinism. Having adequately grasped the meaning behind Jewetts perspectives, i...
bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story" (Wharton). Its his c...
opportunity to exercise their intellects--they went away to college, and if they were not encouraged to enter business or a profes...
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...
If we look at the way that conspicuous consumption today and in the past there is still an element of class differentiation in the...
"Make connections between a movie and...the culture" (Corrigan 7). In this novel, and film, costumes, or clothing, was a very impo...
Delphin by the Forum for a clandestine meeting. This Delphin Slade happened to be engaged to Alida at the time. Alida says that sh...
both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...
formality and propriety was incorrect and not only have the main characters deceived each other, but Wharton has been successful i...
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...
In three pages Frome's character is analyzed as it pertains to his 3 failures. There is no bibliography included....
they first met, I could just imagine the cold and brutality of the winters in Starkfield. Within the story though, Ethan finds the...
In ten pages three main characters are examined in terms of how they reflect Wharton's theme of entrapment in the novel. Five sou...
In seven pages this essay compares how each author presents common protagonists as deeply complex human beings. There are no othe...
In four pages this novel is analyzed through the use of literary elements of protagonist, antagonist, plot, setting, conflict, and...
for reasons that he cannot fathom. "Daisys beauty is to be apprehended and judged, then, according to its degree of artifice. It...
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...
wrongly jailed" (Boyer). The first case they discuss is that of Marion Coakley, who "served more than two years in prison becaus...
was a woman who was independent, has affairs, leaves her husband, isnt interested in being the sole person responsible for the upb...
he was forced to abandon his studies in physics and engineering in order to carry out the duty of returning to his home in Starkfi...
and large, the wealthy is a class of leisure. This upper class mentality is expressed in Whartons (2000) House of Mirth. The nov...
of his mother during her long illness, however, he primarily, marries her because he does not want to be alone during the long New...
this particular poem the first four lines seem to offer us a great deal of foundation for understanding the symbolic nature of you...