A Comparison Of The Women Of Wharton And Deledda
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Two writers, both women, both from different backgrounds. Edith Wharton
was high society. Grazia Deledda was a commoner from another country. Though
both wrote almost exclusively to their won regions, their portrayal of women was
quite similar. In Wharton's Ethan Frome she has two women, both dis ....
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.... story, as I
expressed in the opening paragraph, lie two women. The first is Zenobia Frome,
or Zeena for short. In her late twenties, she suffers from a compounded sickness
that was thought to be brought on by her taking care of Ethan's mother and her
absorption of life's burdens. In this story she is the conflicting character.
The other woman is a young Mattie Silver, the cousin of Zeena and the
housemaid of the Fromes. Mattie is about twenty-one years old and not too much
of a house kee ....
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