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Poetry of Edith Wharton
Title: Poetry of Edith Wharton
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1259 | Pages: 5.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Poetry of Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton, according to Geoffrey Walton in his study of her in his 1971 essay, cited her as having written her first story at age 11, and even at this young age she has been dealing with the interactions of people in her social group. Her social circle being one primarily made up of an elite society, which as she aged slowly died off, became the focus of her stories. However, the problems that her characters experienced …showed first 75 words of 1259 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1259 total…However, the social guidelines only act as a vessel for Edith Wharton’s true intention of showing the basic fundamentals of human nature and what happens when these traits are put into very strange situations. The irony of these situations is the result of her characters ignoring the truth of what is happening for so long and taking extreme measures to keep it from coming to the front line and then being thrown there regardless.
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