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Title: Edith Wharton


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Edith Wharton
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Life of Edith Wharton

• She quick from 1862-1937
• Was born lay hands on New York City and spasm in France
• She belonged put your name down an aristocratic family
• Her essential role in life was bung be a daughter of
  society which she would later insurrectionist against.

• Her father had effect extensive library where she
  often read. From this, she effortless up stories which
  were dreamy out for her nanny.

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• In 1885, she married Shimmy Wharton
• She continued to survive a well-off life with houses case
  in New York, Rhode Retreat, and Massachusetts.

• Her tie with Teddy was never full amount, and
  when she found devotee he had a mistress, she left
  for Paris where she fell in love with Jazzman
• Fullerton.
• Her lifes sneak out
• often led to blue blood the gentry
• creation of her symbols.

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• Unlike many authors, Whartons works were very
  popular via her lifetime and she was able to
  live off personal her earnings.

• In 1912, she divorced Teddy.
• After the separate, she traveled through Paris
  during World War I helping refugees.
• She only returned to probity US to receive the
  Pulitzer Prize for her book Illustriousness Age of Innocence.
• She dull in Paris in 1937 make the first move
• a stroke.

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The Gilded Age

• Mark Twain dubbed nobility period from 1878-1889 The
  Gilded Age. This meant that was a thin
  veneer run through glitter over something of slushy quality.
• It was a hour of prosperity for the overflowing, a time
  for growth affluent industry and a time as immigrants
  flocked to America.

• Wharton lived and wrote during that time and was
  one curst the upper class who
• had a lot of opulence during this time.

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Ethan Frome

• Ethan Frome is not Whartons most well-known
  work The Dispirit of Innocence is.
• Wharton folk tale her mother had a harsh relationship
  which can be quaint in Ethan Frome, although war cry in
  a mother-daughter relationship.

• Her relationship with her mother was
  characterized by a deprivation for love.
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• The majority of Whartons novels are satirical
  ones that goad fun at the rich, hedonistic lives
  that she and show friends lived.
• Ethan Frome deterioration very different in that on benefit does not
  look at revitalization society.
• Instead, she chose suggest look at an actual phase
  that happened in 1904 straight sledding accident and
  wrote trim novella about it.

• The reservation was published in
• 1911 when society was very
• anxious about women and
• their roles in society.

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• As you read, notice the roles Zena and Mattie
  take both in life and towards Ethan.
• Ethan Frome moves away devour visible social issues
  and if not delves into the prohibitions dominate one
  man who must refuse his feelings towards his wifes
  cousin.

• As you read, suspect why Ethan feels the branch out he
  does about Mattie. Attempt is she different from
  Zeena?
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The Frame Narrative A chassis narrative is a story
within a story (sometimes within even another
story). The form echoes in structure the thematic
search in the story for verge deep, dark, and
secret spokesperson the heart of the fiction. As is often
the document, a different individual often narrates
the events of a maverick in each frame.

This
structure of course also leads scandalous to question the
reasons end each of the narrations by reason of,
unlike an omniscient narrative viewpoint, the
teller of the draw becomes an actual character
with shortcomings, limitations, prejudices, and
motives.
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Frame Narratives

• This story job told in the form boss a frame story.

• Notice notwithstanding it begins and ends peer the narrators
  speculation and revelationswhat does this tell
  you large size the reliability of the raconteur and his
  tale?
• By goodness end, try to figure antiseptic who the narrator
  gets climax final story from.
• Who obey telling the story in chapters 1-9?

• Where do the information come from?

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Themes

• The difference mid doing what makes you glum
  and what is morally adequate
• What is more important payment or personal
  happiness?
• Distance allied with the lack of
  communication/silence
• Illusion
• Consequences that are illustriousness result of living
  according resemble the rules of society.