Edith Wharton: "April Showers" - Realism, Theme Flashcards

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note

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  • third-person limited portrayal of a middle-class family in the daily struggles of living to achieve her goals as a Realist writer reaching for social reform
  • fame changes the way people treat each other
  • nature goes on the same, regardless of humans’ joys or sorrows
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the sentiment that women were not recognized as legitimate writers in Wharton’s time is echoed in the story “April Showers” by what character?

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Uncle James

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the following passage from paragraph 33 of Edith Wharton’s “April Showers” addresses the theme of
Girls with more pin-money that Theodora had ever dreamed of copied her hats and imitated her way of speaking

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how the perception of fame changes the way people treat each other

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edith wharton’s story, “april showers” is written from what point of view

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third person limited

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in edith wharton’s “april showers,” the dace household is characterized as

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a real, ordinary, middle-class home

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in paragraph 40 of “april showers” theodora describes the editor of the “home circle” as

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an enormous presence

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