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1、Roman Fever中的疏远与异化Alienation in Roman Fever Edith Whartons Roman Fever tells a story of love and hatred, or friendship and hostility between two women. It develops just along a clue: remembering-contrasting-rediscovering. The whole story is in an atmosphere of nostalgia, but surprising messages cont

2、inuously expose themselves out of seemingly trivial affairs. From the very beginning when they start their talks with each other, both of them” reflected how little they know each other”, though they have been habitually thinking each other as the best friend for so many years. Here, one point which

3、 the writer puts emphasis on appearsalienation among modern people, even though they are so-called best friends. Such a feeling of alienation lies in the relationship between wife and husband as well. Mrs Ansley and Horace Ansley had been regarded as a suitable pair. But their marriage actually is n

4、othing but a kind of performance in accordance with the social morality. Mrs Slade and Delphin Slade is said to be an energetic pair. They have been, however, keeping something in darkness respectively for all their lives, at the least, for all Mr. Slades life, which have been enough to prove their

5、lack of communication. And we can also find some traces of alienation between mothers and daughters. The story begins with daughters making mock of mothers out-of-date, and mothers embarrassment, especially to Mrs. Slade, after her husbands death, “there was nothing left but to mother her daughter;

6、and dear jenny was such a perfect daughter that she needed no excessive mothering”. Mrs. Slade gets ready to 1 interfere in jennys affairs, only to find that she has no way to enter her daughter s world. The whole story is structured accurately, through which readers can enter a world where they can share the inner secrets of two upper-class ladies and observe deeply humanity in common, along one clue. It is no exaggeration to say that Whartons Roman Fever is eminent through a structuralism look. 2