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A 5 page paper analyzing the relationship of the men in Edith Wharton's poetry and fiction to the relationships she actually had in her life. The paper determines there is a very close correspondence, and theorizes that putting so much of her personal life into her writing helped her deal with her own experience. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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her own experience. This paper will discuss some of the men in Edith Whartons life, and how they are depicted in her writing. Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones,
the youngest child of a very privileged household; her parents had homes in New York City, Paris, and Newport, R.I (Charters, 1331). Her father taught her to read very young,
and she became obsessed with books and writing; nonetheless, her early life was very lonely because her family, while cultured and well-educated, was not particularly intellectual, and she had no
one in the family with whom to share her passion for literature. Very early in her life, therefore, she began to seek literary friends outside her family, and draw them
into her inner circle. The charismatic young woman had no shortage of boyfriends, despite the opinion of a society columnist for the Newport Daily News, who attributed the breakup
of Edith and her first fianc?e to "an alleged preponderance of intellectuality on the part of the bride" (Lewis, 45). Most of the men to whom Edith was attracted
found her intellectuality fascinating. One of these was Walter Van Rensselaer Berry. From the same "old money" society as Edith herself, Berry never quite managed to get up the nerve
to ask her to marry him, but he remained her closest and most enduring friend throughout his life. Strangely, however, it was not Berry that Edith chose, but a Bostonian
thirteen years her senior. Edward Wharton, or "Teddy" as everyone called him, was handsome and likeable, far more boyish than his age would warrant, but neither talented, literary, nor ambitious.
However, Ediths parents encouraged the marriage because their iconoclastic daughter, at nearly twenty-four, was nearing the age when it would be difficult to marry her off at all. Ediths friend
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