... winter is an extremely appropriate method of conveying the death imagery she employs since winter, traditionally, is the season when life ebbs from the earth. For example, the narrator notes that when winter began in Starkfield, and "the village lay under a sheet of show perpetually renewed [he] began to see ... is often described as having dead plants attached to it, such as "the black wraith of a deciduous creeper flapp[ing] from the porch- or "a dead cucumber-vine dangl[ing] from the porch like the crape streamer tied to the door for death- (Wharton 13,33). Just like the home he live...

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