This has been my final fall semester at Rhodes College and I can confidently say that it was filled from top to bottom with Edith Wharton. I read House of Mirth in the summer and then dedicated the semester to analyzing it for my senior seminar paper, and I just finished The Age of Innocence…
An advice often given to writers is to not attempt to write about a time period until it’s over, only leaving echoes in its wake. Only when a new era has begun is it safe to write about it—just like you can’t properly describe what it’s like to be fifteen until you’re sixteen. You couldn’t…
Like a series of party scenes that once bloomed bright in the 1920s east coast, The Great Gatsby is like a festivity in itself—one long-drawn summer of humid heat, boating, late-night parties, and forgotten love. Jay Gatsby emerges into being in the middle of his own beautiful mansion like a god, but much like F….