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A Comparison of the Women of Wharton and Deledda
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 wome ....
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.... she caught the eye of Ethan Frome who would fetch her on nights of
town revelry, and with that grew a forbidden love. This is the conflict of the
story.
In 1920, Grazia Deledda published La Madre. Maria Maddalena is the
mother of the priest who, throughout the book, falls to the wayside under
temptation. She is a very old-fashioned woman as is the whole town.
Overprotective of her son, she helps build up the climactic theme of faith. The
other woman is Agnes, a well-to-do townswoman who is the object of the priest's
backslidden affair. Unlike Ethan Fro ....
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