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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.
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 Frome, in this story the characters of
conflict shift between the two women. Now l.... |
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