Connotation Of Women In Roman Fever

The diction of Edith Wharton’s short story “Roman Fever” depicts the idea of the comparative nature of woman in this society. The entirety of the plot consists of two lifelong “friends” talking in a Roman restaurant and a significant part of the story, both spoken and unspoken, involve the two women comparing themselves to the other. Near the beginning, it features an internal monologue which describes what each woman thinks of the other. In Mrs. Ansley description of Mrs. Slade, she says, "Alida Slade's awfully brilliant; but not as brilliant as she thinks" by describing Mrs. Slade like this it Mrs. Ansley’s shows she has a negative connotation of her and a belief that although Mrs. Ansley is smart, Mrs. Ansley is also full of herself and