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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