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Roman Fever

Presented by PERSON for COMPANY

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was an American novelist, short story writer. She was born in 1862, during the Civil war.

Edith Wharton

In 1885 : she married Edward Wharton. And after nearly 30 years later, she divorced h...

In 1885 : she married Edward Wharton. And after nearly 30 years later, she divorced him.

In 1908 : she began a shortly fulfilling but ultimately disappointing affair with Morton Fullerton

In 1921 : she won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature.

In 1923 : she became the first woman to receive an honorary doctorate from Yale.

In 1937 : she died of a stroke.

In 1923 : she became the first woman to receive an honorary doctorate from Ya...

Roman Fever

How is the title "Roman Fever" associate with the story?

How is the title "Roman Fever" associate with the story?

Setting

The story took place in Rome, where is the center of historiy and the best place to bring the characters back to the past.

Setting

The author use the "light" as a symbol to display the important events and the atmosphere respectively.

The author use the "light" as a symbol to display the important events and t...

The clear heaven was emptied of its gold

Plot

Part I

Plot

After lunching, Mrs.Slade and Mrs.Ansley, two American ladies who have known each other since childhood spend time talking at the parapet of the Roman restaurant.

Two derelict basket chairs

After Mrs.Slade sat on the chair, she admired that the scenery of Rome is the most beautiful in the world

“It always will be, to me”

After Mrs.Slade sat on the chair, she admired that the scenery of Rome is the mo...

Mrs Ansley might hide somthings in her mind about this place even Mrs.Slade is suspect of stressing that word.

The Two ladies sat there the whole day by Mrs.Slade gave money to the headwaiter, waiting for their daughters came back from wandering

“old lovers of Rome”

“old lovers of Rome”

Rome is the place where had the story of love happened before

A full moon night, they would remember

In this part related to the two ladies’s life. Their husbands died at about the same time and after another interval, they ran across each other in Rome at the same Hotel.

In this part related to the two ladies’s life. Their husbands died at about the same ti...

In the past, Mrs.Slade lost her son after that her husband died, she had to responsible all of her husband’s work

Mrs.Ansley had always been rather sorry for her…

making doubts that why did Mrs.Ansley has to sorry to Mrs.Slade

Part II

Memento Mori

The two women were talking until the evening. Mrs. Slade started to talk about the story in the past that refer to their grandmother and their mom.

The two women were talking until the evening. Mrs. Slade started to talk abo...

Knitting

Mrs. Slade began to talk about their past story again but Mrs. Ansley absorb in knitting and it make Mrs. Slade curious what Mrs. Ansley thought.

When Mrs. Slade saw Colosseum, it made she thought about the past and move on to the topic that Mrs.Ansley got Roman Fever and in this part, the secret

had explored

Mrs. Slade began to talk about their past story again but Mrs. Ansley absorb ...

“Well, I suppose that was why the story of your wicked aunt made such an impression on me.”

Mrs. Ansley got Roman fever may caused by Mrs. Slade's plan

Mrs. Ansley got Roman fever may caused by Mrs. Slade's plan

The secret about a letter revealed that Mrs. Ansley got Roman Fever because she we...

The secret about a letter revealed that Mrs. Ansley got Roman Fever because she went out at that night since she saw the letter from Mr. Delphin. On the other hand, that letter was written by Mrs. Slade because she want to get rid of Mrs. Ansley but Mrs. Ansley replied the letter. At that night Mr. Delphin and Mrs. Ansley met each other at Colosseum. Mrs. Slade was stunned when she knew the truth.

"I had Barbara"

The end of this story is different from what the readers thought.

The end of this story is different from what the readers thought.

Characters

Alida Slade Protagonist : Static

Characters

Grace Ansley

Antagonist : Dynamic

Antagonist : Dynamic

Barbara Ansley(Babs)

Jenny Slade

Mr.Delphin Slade

Mr.Delphin Slade

Mr. Horace Ansley

Mr. Horace Ansley

Great-aunt Harriet

Great-aunt Harriet

Relative

Frenemy

Married

having an affair

Daughter

Motivation

Relative

Who do you likely to symphatize more between Mrs.Slade and Mrs.Ansley?

Conflict

Person against Person

  • Between Mrs.Slade and Mrs.Ansley

Conflict

- They are "Frenemy"

- They were in love with the same man

- Mrs.Slade envy of Mrs.Ansley

Person againnst Society

  • Between Mrs.Slade and Society

Person againnst Society

- Woman is the social gift.

- Woman is less important than man

- Having a label ready to attach other's name.

Point of View

Omniscient

Theme

"People goes wrong because of love"

- Why Mrs.Slade doesn't think that Mrs.Ansley would answer the lett...

- Why Mrs.Slade doesn't think that Mrs.Ansley would answer the letter?

- What do you think about the relationship between Mrs.Slade and Mrs.Ansley after that situation?

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