The question I have chosen to examine within this essay is ‘Do you agree that, although the women writers studied on this module flirted with rebellion, their narratives finally endured the virtues of conformity’. Within the Women in American Literature module, the majority of the female authors was equal right campaigners or women who was raised to be as independent or more, then the opposite sex. For example the author, Edith Wharton. “Women of Wharton’s class and education often had an ambivalent or even hostile relationship to women’s culture, seen as boring and restrictive.” (Showalter). Wharton was a celebrated author who resisted her role as a good wife for as long as possible. “Edith Wharton wrote a total of twenty-five novels and novellas,
