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    In the novel The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, sight plays a very important role to the overall development of the book. Wharton uses sight in two different ways: to represent the nativity and ignorance of people as well as to show how the main characters chose to reflect upon their experiences. This novel reflects the innocence of Newland’s character although he doesn’t realise it until the end and how his ignorance has impacted the experience of those around him. In this book, sight and…

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    Stuck on a farm, forced to deal with the eventual death of both his parents and lost in the beauty of the house maid Mattie Silver, Ethan Frome is a victim in Edith Wharton's novel Ethan Frome. Throughout the novel, Wharton highlights the circumstances Frome's faces that lead him to his incident on the sled when Mattie and he crash into a tree. Wharton begins Frome’s journey of poor circumstances when his father dies and he is left in Starkfield to tend for his sick mother while still…

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    Modeled after Edith Wharton's novella of the same name, the 1993 adaptation of Ethan Frome does a pleasant job in retelling the original story. In the film, as in the novella, Ethan Frome depicts the story of a scandalous love triangle between Ethan (Liam Neeson), a farmer, Zeena (Joan Allen), Ethan’s sickly wife, and Mattie (Patricia Arquette), Zeena’s caretaker set in a dull New England town. These three characters, all with very different in personalities, trapped in a claustrophobic…

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    recurring themes, literary devices, and ideas, to enhance their books. For example, Edith Wharton repeatedly uses motifs to highlight important pieces in her novella. Specifically, Wharton involves the motifs man as a victim of fate, snow and cold, and the power of silence and isolation to create greater meaning in Ethan Frome. Undoubtedly, the motif man as a victim of fate shows up repeatedly to add depth to Edith Wharton’s short novel.…

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    Things like where the patient lives and Similarly, the setting of the novella Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton contributes to a deeper meaning other than a description of the place where Wharton stages the story. Undoubtedly, Edith Wharton uses the setting to illuminate the qualities of Naturalism, create symbolism, and develop the persona of Ethan Frome in her novella of the same name. Certainly, Edith Wharton’s use of setting in Ethan Frome categorizes the novella as a literary work in…

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    In the essay Pierce uses numerous rhetorical devices and uses them at the right time to make the essay more effective with a condescending diction and a long and involved syntax, which also helped set the conversational tone and serious mood. This essay had numerous rhetorical devices throughout the essay, in fact there is a rhetorical device in the first line, “Once upon a time” (Pierce, Line 1), this is cliche as “Once upon a time” is very used and familiar phase and the reader knows that it…

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    In the book Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, a man named Ethan who lives on his family’s farm with no hope of leaving, struggles to support and to love his wife. When he begins to fall for his wife’s cousin who is helping out in the house during the midst of a cold depressing winter, she begins to turn it into a winter wonderland. Many aspects of the book lead up to the suicide attempt of Mattie and Ethan; it all starts with Mattie turning down Denis Eady and then Ethan kissing the cloth.…

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    Later in the novel, when Zeena figures out later that her pickle dish was shattered, the reader finds out how special the dish was to her. She received the pickle dish as a wedding gift from her Aunt Philura Maple, leaving the dish on top of a shelf, never getting it down “[ex]cept for spring cleaning, lift[ing] it with [her] own hands” (Wharton 69). She never brings down her dish, “not even when the minster come[s] to dinner, or [her] Aunt Martha Pierce” (Wharton 69). It is obvious that the…

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    throughout Edith Wharton’s novel and answered by an evaluation of the main characters. Isolation is the underlying cause and motive of the three main characters and even rests in the setting of the novel. Guilt is a deep seeded emotion that often drives behavior, even unknowingly. This is Ethan’s struggle. And, distinguishing between illusion and reality intensifies both the guilt and the isolation. Guilt, isolation and illusion/reality are the three most significant themes present in Edith…

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    with college-educated first ladies such as Lucy Hayes and Lucretia Garfield. Unfortunately, either the time’s restriction on women’s involvement in politics or simply illness limited many of these first ladies. By the turn of the century, however, Edith Roosevelt and then Helen Taft functioned as incredibly active first ladies, breaking previous restrictions on the role of first lady in their own respective social and political fields. Looking carefully at these two first ladies, the public…

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