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    Delaney Renker 24 October 2013 ENG 210 Close Reading (short story) Short Story - Close Reading I am working with Edith Wharton’s short story‚ “Roman Fever.” Immediately‚ we sense the tension between Grace Ansley and Alida Slade. The climax has just occurred as Mrs. Slade confesses that she is the one who wrote Mrs. Ansley the love letter that‚ unknown to Mrs. Slade‚ catalyzed her relationship and therefore her child with Mrs. Slade’s husband. In the provided passage‚ Mrs. Ansley falls silent

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    Destructive Passion and Past Repetition In “Roman Fever” In the short storyRoman Fever” we see a pattern in the lives of the women. I like to call this destructive passion. Destructive passion can be put into a literal term of passion itself. “Passion in itself is an emotion applied to a strong feeling about a person or thing.” (Merriam-Webster online) This also means that passion can be known has having a strong desire towards something or someone. Intense passion in the forms of love‚ fear

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    It takes years to build trust but seconds to break it. Trust is the main aspect of any relationship. If a relationship lacks trust and a person finds out that his or her friend cheated or lied‚ it just changes everything in one’s life. The short storyRoman Fever” written by Edith Wharton revolves around the lives of two friends‚ Mrs. Slade and Mrs. Ansley‚ who knew each other for too long to call themselves each other’s best friend. They had same events occurring in their lives in the same period

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    Roman Fever Analysis I believe the central idea of “Roman Fever” by Edith Wharton is how present the past really is people judge you by your past‚ your life is determined by your past‚ and you are everything your past made you out to be. Her themes of choice‚ irony‚ destructive passions and the past is always present in the lives we lead today are clearly presented within her writing and made evident thru the storyline she uses. In “Roman Fever” two women who

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    Banking University of Ho Chi Minh City Foreign Languages Faculty AMERICAN LITERATURE ROMAN FEVER GROUP 6 1. Nguyễn Ngọc Cúc 2. Nguyễn Thị Mỹ Linh 3. Phan Quỳnh Bửu Chi 4. Trần Khánh Bích Hằng 5. Hồ Diễm Kim Ngân 6. Nguyễn Lê Hoàng Linh 7. Đoàn Thị Tố Loan 8. Nguyễn Thị Thùy Lâm 9. Đoàn Văn Luận 10. Phạm Tiến Đạt THESIS STATEMENT Through the fight between the two women which

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    1. Characterize Grace Ansley and Alida Slade as fully as you can. By what characterizing devices does the story imply the superiority of Mrs. Slade (what gestures‚ what statements‚ what unspoken thoughts)? At what point does Mrs. Ansley begin to seem the superior person? Kirsten Grace Ansley initially seems to be the more passive of the two women since she does not hold strong feelings of rivalry and jealousy as Alida Slade does. She is not envious of Mrs. Slade because she secretly knows that

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    From the terrace of a Roman restaurant‚ two middle-aged women gaze down on the splendor of Rome and its ancient ruins. The narrator describes one of the women as small and pale and the other u0093fulleru0094 and u0093higher in color.u0094 On the stairway leading to a courtyard below‚ two young girls hasten off to an adventure. The women overhear one of them saying‚ u0093Well‚ come along‚ then‚ and letu0092s leave the young things to their knitting.u0094 .......The pale woman‚ Mrs. Horace (Grace)

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    Joseph Locore Ms. Stone English 11A C 19 December 2010 Realism in Modern Short Stories Realism is a type of literary style in which an author will try to convey a message through ordinary life and people‚ the real life situations they may encounter‚ and the likely outcome to their struggles. These outcomes are usually harsh‚ but are more realistic than traditional stories. Raw and brutal emotion can usually be found in these stories because of the lack of idealization the author uses to create

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    are "rebels‚" some are "bookworms‚" and some are "brilliant." In Edith Wharton’s short story‚ "Roman Fever‚" the females begin as two different stereotypes and end as something unexpected. Even the title‚ "Roman Fever" has an unforeseen meaning‚ proving that things are not always what they seem. Even the most sheepish woman can be a Lioness‚ and the most confident woman can be completely insecure. The story is set entirely on a patio in Rome. The main characters are described as‚ "…two American

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    Buck Fever It was a cold October evening. The sun was falling behind the treeline and the nocturnal animals began to scurry around in the leaves below us. My father and I were perched upon a treestand up above. We were both weighed down with our heavy hunting equipment. I had on overalls‚ 2 layers of pants and socks‚ a heavy winter coat‚ and my dad’s hunting boots‚ way too big for my tiny feet. The last 3 days were exactly like this‚ quiet and empty. It wasn’t long before the silence would soon

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