Alida Slade Quotes

Alida Slade It is human nature for people to build bonds and form relationships with other people. From forming an intimate relationship, to forming friends, and even forming enemies, these things come naturally. In the story Roman Fever written by Edith Wharton which plays out a story of two friends reminiscing about the past, but with thinking about the past it brings up old secrets. The two main characters in the story are Alida Slade and Grace Ansely and though out the whole story Alida is the antagonist. The character Alida Slade is full of jealously, manipulative, and sneaking, and the story shows how all of this characteristic back fire on her. In the story Alida uses these traits to try to get Grace to acknowledge the fact that she knows about her …show more content…
Alida was a wife to her late husband Dephin who was a big shot lawyer. Not only is Alida is described in the beginning but the reader gets to see a bit of Alida jealously towards Grace. In Alida thought process it shows how she is jealous of the way her daughter, whose name is Jenny, came out differently than the way she hoped. She wanted her daughter to be more like Grace’s daughter Barbara. For example she says “though certainly Babs, according to the new standards at any rate, was more effective- had more edge, as they say. Funny where she got it, with those two nullities as parents.”( edith warthon pg 514). Another example is when the author says “Mrs.Slade sometimes half-enviously reflected: but Jenny, who was younger than her brilliant friend, was that rare accident, an extremely pretty girl who somehow made youth and prettiness seem as safe as their absence.” (ed ). These thoughts play an important role because it causes Alida to turn on her other characteristic and in a way seems to plant the seed in Alida heads to bring up the