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This is a 4 page paper discussing Edith Wharton’s short story “Roman Fever” including several elements of fiction which are used such as plot, characters, language, setting, theme, points of view and imagery among others. American writer Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was born into a wealthy New York family and throughout her career spent a great deal of time traveling and living in Europe. While the short story “Roman Fever” (1936) reveals her love for the beauty of the city of Rome, perhaps more importantly the story reveals the levels of deception which can live within the propriety of the upper classes. Through the analysis of several elements of fiction within the work, readers are able to understand how Wharton manages to maintain formality within the text yet still offer readers an increasingly interesting story.
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"Roman Fever" (1936) reveals her love for the beauty of the city of Rome, perhaps more importantly the story reveals the levels of deception which can live within the propriety
of the upper classes. Through the analysis of several elements of fiction within the work, readers are able to understand how Wharton manages to maintain formality within the text yet
still offer readers an increasingly interesting story. The story involves two middle-aged American ladies, Grace Ansley and Alida Slade, who by chance end up vacationing together in Rome with their
daughters, Grace Slade and Barbara "Babs" Ansley. One afternoon, while the daughters are off enjoying the splendors of Rome with presumably some young men, Mrs. Ansley and Mrs. Slade spend
their time remaining on a restaurant terrace overlooking a beautiful view of the city. While the major characters in the story are Mrs. Ansley and Mrs. Slade, their daughters and
indeed their deceased husbands, Delphin Slade and Horace Ansley, also become minor characters relevant to the plot. The plot soon reveals that
the women have been acquaintances and even friends for most of their lives and even had lived across the street from each other in New York when they were still
both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background profiles on each of the women all the time
revealing to the readers that "these two ladies visualized each other, each through the wrong end of the telescope" (Wharton, 1936). In Section II, the depth of their relationship becomes
more involved when Wharton gradually reveals that when the two women were in Rome twenty-five years previously, Mrs. Ansley had been having an affair with the fianc? of Mrs. Slade.
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