John Gardner's "On Moral Fiction" John Gardner's "On Moral Fiction" is a fine example of fictional analysis. After reading the excerpt assigned in class, I was in awe at the truth and reality presented. I had never thought of morality in that sense and found it t...

Annotated Bibliography Ethan FromeMarius Bewley "Mrs. Wharton's Mask," The New York Review of Books, Vol. 11, No. 3. 1964 7-9 Rpt. In Twentieth Century Literary Critixism Ed. Dennis Poupard. Vol. 27. Detroit: Gale, 1988. Bewley's thesis is that Ethan Frome reflects Wharten's private experien...

Isolation as portrayed in Ethan Frome and Acquainted With the Night In both the novel Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton and the poem Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost, the theme of isolation was quite evident. In the two of these literary works, the main characters are isolated both em...