Edith Wharton Who is Edith Wharton was born
Edith Wharton Who is? Edith Wharton was born into a wealthy New York family in 1862, She is an American author Many of Wharton's novels are characterized by used of veiled dramatic irony. This irony makes intriguing the reading She was the first woman awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
From which family environment she become? She cames frome a rich family to New York, This has allowed him to have a very good instruction. Indeed Edith spent much of her childhood in Europe, developing a deep appreciation literature. his narrative style, his language and the use of terms are refined and studied, this suggest her education.
The influences of the society She was born into a firmly controlled society, at a time when women were discouraged from realized something concretely. The figure of woman in this century was static, indeed they had to take care of hause and raise the childrens. Wharton broke this opinion of woman to become one of America’s greatest writers. The environment from which she came, characterized his novels, which denounced this society, that is closely linked to religion.
The influences of the society In the novel Ethan Frome readers can see these themes The characterization of the character of Zeena, in fact, she represents the classic religious woman who takes care of the house.
The descriptions of Edith Warton Wharton's style is determined by his influence on readers For esemple reader of the novel "Ethan Frome" harbours a sense of contempt and antipathy for Zeena. Indeed the descriptions of the characters, that realizes patterns of imagery, patterns of behavior, and specially charged words have a specific stylistic purpos.
The narrators of Edith Wharton's novels The choice of the narrator serve a definite stylistic and structural purpose in "Ethan Frome" As a matter of fact the narrator, who speaks in first person, is a external narrator; This is intended to produce an involvement of readers
The narrator in Ethan Frome In Etham Frome the narrator is a cultured and uppermiddle-class man who during a working day, was fascinated by the personality of Ethan Frome. He is very curious and a nosey guy. As a matter of fact he asks everybody to tell him Ethan's story According to me the narrator is he fascinated by Ethan and his story becouse Ethan has an uncommon personality or becouse the fisical aspect of Ethan intrigues him, and this bring about to deepen the story.
The conssideration of the love of Edith Wharton “If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time” this is a quotes from Edith Wharton Accordiong to me Edith Wharton has a negative consideration of the love As a matter of fact we squander a lot of time in the pursuit of happiness or love and the consequence is that we lose the sense of entertainment
The type of love I am agree whit Edith Wharton's opinion becouse the love is not only man objective Another theme of Ethan Frome is that Mattie and Ethan, which are in love, to live happily and serenely they are willing to die togheter. As a matter of fact they decide to die because they continue to suffer for the love, that bound them
Who is the victim in the novel "Ethan Frome"? According to me the victim of the novel is Zeena Indeed Zeena suffers because her husband her cousin have a relationship Initially the narrator describe Zeena negatively in order to create in the readers resentment and contempt towards Zeena In addiction the novelist uses some despicable terms to describe Zeena, indeed she is described as "already an old woman" I think that this is a narrative technique, used to create a wrong idea of Zeena but in the end the readers, after a deep analysis, change their opinion on character and they comprehend that she is the victim of the novel
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