A Comparison Of The Women Of Wharton And Deledda

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taking care of
Ethan's mother and her absorption of life's burdens. In this story she is
the conflicting character.
The other woman is a young Mattie Silver, the cousin of Zeena and
the housemaid of the Fromes. Mattie is about twenty-one years old and not
too much of a house keeper since she is small and weak and somewhat clumsy.
But nevertheless she caught the eye of Ethan Frome who would fetch her on
nights of town revelry, and with that grew a forbidden love. This is the
conflict of the story.
In 1920, Grazia Deledda published La Madre. Maria Maddalena is the
mother of the priest who, throughout the book, falls to the wayside under
temptation. She is a very old-fashioned woman as is the whole town.
Overprotective of her son, she helps build up the climactic theme of faith.
The other woman is Agnes, a well-to-do townswoman who is the object of the
priest's backslidden affair. Unlike Ethan Frome, in this story the
characters of conflict shift between the two women. Now ...

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