Analysis Of The Main Characters Of Short Story “Roman Fever” By Edith Wharton

Analysis of the Main Characters of Short Story “Roman Fever” by Edith Wharton Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was famous American writer, the first women, who won the Pulitzer Prize. She was born in a rich family and grew up being surrounded by gossips,... More

Analysis of the Main Characters of Short Story “Roman Fever” by Edith Wharton Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was famous American writer, the first women, who won the Pulitzer Prize. She was born in a rich family and grew up being surrounded by gossips, hypocrisy, deceit, and other typical signs of rich female society at the end of the nineteenth century. The main hobby of those women was knitting, not only with silk but with little “intrigues”. Certainly, they needed some ways to improve boring lifestyle of women who could not study, work and had to wait for their darling husbands every evening, and there was nothing else to do. Sometimes they drank tea or played bridge, etc. Edith Wharton left this society, became successful, famous, independent and the first female owner of Pulitzer Prize. Nevertheless, she was a child of those times, events, people, she was a part of that small world of American women, namely “Stepford wives”. Therefore, this connection was reflected in Edith Wharton’s s Less