... she wanted to keep it a secret from everyone, so she said that she had gotten sick that from going out at night. So everyone believed that she had Roman fever. As Mrs. Slade says, " You do [not] remember going to visit some ruins or other one evening, just after dark, and catching a bad chill? You ... to the colosseum caused her to become sick. In Fact, her visit to the colosseum does cause Mrs. Ansley to get sick, but it was not from Roman fever; it was there that she met with Delphin, Mrs. Slade's husband, and it was then that she became pregnant. The title of this story could possibl...

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Expectant Mothers Both Edith's Wharton's "Roman Fever- (repr. in Thomas R. Arp, and Greg Johnson, Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound and Sense, 8th ed. [Fort Worth: Harcourt, 2002] 427) and Frank O'Connor's "The ... . [Fort Worth: Harcourt, 2002] 342) display examples of situational irony. However, the manner in which the reader understands the stories' expectations is quite different. In "Roman Fever-, the reader assumes what will happen doesn't really happen. In "The Drunkard-, the reader expects the husband will be the one the story is written about, and a ... twist in the story causes...

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... , most open of friends may learn they do not know everything about one another. Their friendship may mask feelings of resentment and jealously, as the case in the short story "Roman Fever" by Edith Wharton. While vacationing in Rome with their daughters, two recently widowed lifelong friends, Alida Slade and Grace Ansley, learn they do not know as much about one and ... first Grace will not take the bait Alida is trying to give her; she acts as if she is consumed by her knitting. Alida brings up the wives"-tale about Roman Fever with a hint of detestation in her voice she admits that aft...

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How difficult can it be to compare Edith Wharton's "Roman Fever- to Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour-? Well, once you really look into the two stories, there are many similarities. Mrs. Slade and Mrs. Mallard have very similar views ... Slade as employment. Edith Wharton even states in the story " she felt her unemployment more than poor Grace ever would."" (3;http:/classiclit.about.com/library/ bl-etexts/ewharton/bl-ewharton-roman.htm). Wharton also describes Mrs. Slade's life now as " ,being the Slade's widow was a dullish business after that."" (3). This being said after the reader ha...

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