Edith Wharton

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton and We Were Liars by E. Lockhart both involve the main characters The Age of Innocence and We Were Liars both have many similarities such as relationships, and sometimes lying. In The Age of Innocence Newland Archer and May Welland became engaged which showed the love they have for each other in the beginning of the book. In We Were Liars Cadence had a crush on Gat and they spent time with each other on various activities. Also, Newland and May spent time…

Then There Were None, Agatha Christie casts ten characters out on an island called Soldier Island in which she puts suspicion on all of her characters and making them all possible killers. One by one all the characters start dying. In contrast, in Edith Wharton’s “The Lady’s Maid’s Bell” (1903) a maid who has recently gotten over Typhoid, is sent to work for a woman at her country house. She is constantly curious of the room across from her, which is the room of a maid named Emma, who had died.…

Back’ and ‘The Last of the Belles.’” (“F. Scott Fitzgerald”) Another well known author would be Edith Wharton, born in 1862 to a distinguished New York family and became a novelist. In 1885 Edith married Edward Wharton who was also very wealthy, after marriage she began to write about the changes of the New York society and for her novel The Age of Innocence she won the Pulitzer Prize. (“Edith Wharton”) “A well known poet would be Willa Cather, born in 1873 was a writer of poetry and novels…

The House of Mirth and The Good Soldier have different techniques that engage the reader in the story. Both novels discuss topics such as adultery and manipulation which were highly touchy subjects in their time period. These “scandalize” themes in these two novels holds the reader's attention but, the writing techniques the two authors use make the novel more interesting. The House of Mirth uses a more traditional way of writing while the The Good Soldier uses unordarthox writing style. The…

The same as the setting for the Maggie’s story, the protagonists, Ellen and Archer, in The Age of the Innocence are living between the two cultures. Ellen is a supporter for the new culture. With the appearance of Ellen Olenska in the novel, it deeply brands with the mark of an unusual lady. “With brown hair growing in close curls about her temples and held in place by a narrow band of diamonds. The suggestions of this headdress, which gave her what was then called a ‘Josephine look’, was…

Everyone on Earth’s purpose is to be beatific. People live their lives so the outcome will satisfy them for years to come. They don’t long for sadness or sit down and don’t fix what makes their lives invidious. Similarly in Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, the main character suffers from unhappiness in his marriage and finds someone else who makes him happy, ultimately putting himself first before other people. In The Age of Innocence, a man is set out to marry a woman who he doesn’t love,…

Love and Rebellion In the novel Z: a Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler, Zelda’s family does not approve of the young writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, but Zelda loves him for being different and intelligent. When Zelda meets F. Scott Fitzgerald at a dance, she immediately notices how mature and handsome he is. “What I did know was that he held himself differently from the other boys—other men, I thought; he had to be in his twenties”’ (42). F. Scott Fitzgerald shows maturity and a…

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…

Ethan Frome is a novel written by Edith Wharton in 1911. Ethan is caught between love and morality as he is married but is in love with another woman. He is being treated horribly by his wife Zeena, and sees her cousin and caretaker Mattie as his only chance at love. The broken pickle dish, the cat, and the sled all symbolize the war Ethan was facing between love and responsibility. The broken pickle dish represents the shattered state of Ethan and Zeena's marriage. The dish is their marriage,…

While reading “Roman Fever” by Edith Wharton, I found myself stopping in order to understand, interpret and analyze the text. The first point at which I stopped reading occurred very early on in the story. In the first paragraph, I stopped at the words “lofty terrace” and “Palatine and Forum.” I stopped at these words and looked up pictures of these things in order to be able to envision an image as I read on. I also stopped at the word parapet because I was unsure of the meaning. When I…