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A 6 page analysis of Edith Wharton’s short story Roman Fever. Bibliography lists 4 additional sources.
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both realize they honestly know very little about one another. They are of a wealthy class, wealthy enough to vacation in Rome throughout their lives, and women who are, in
all truth, only passing acquaintances who had fun together in their youth. The following paper analyzes this particular short story in terms of plot, tone and symbolism. Edith
Whartons Roman Fever Plot The plot starts innocently enough, or so it seems. There are two older women, sending their daughters off, in
Rome, to have fun and enjoy their romantic day. They seem to be friends but as the story develops one learns that they are really only two women who have
played and vacationed in the same place throughout the decades, as rich people often do, and did. They spend their day on this balcony, rarely talking, and then begin
talking about the past. One knits and the other watches for the most part. They both think about the other silent one beside them in good, and negative, ways, dissecting
the other, thinking jealous thoughts, and essentially rehashing the past. At such a point in the story the reader is perhaps still unclear as to what the story is ultimately
about, but as the tension rises, a perspective that is discussed in the section on tone within the story, the reader senses that there is a plot developing. The
women discuss a fianc? from the past, a fianc? that became one of the womens husbands. Apparently the fianc? of the man knew the other woman wanted him and so
wrote a false letter to her, presumably from him. She wanted to make fun of her, belittle her, for wanting her fianc?. However, the woman answered the fake letter, thinking
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