Boys

Boys

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Children

Children

Irene’s boys are her foundation and she loves them enough to protect them rom the dangers of hat th world has to offer. As a…

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Nigger

Nigger

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Mother

Mother

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walking home

walking home

After Lizzie’s awful sin of adultery, she returns home to her maid who tells Lizzie that her husband Charles was not home.  This took Lizzie…

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corner of Fifth Avenue and Madison Square

corner of Fifth Avenue and Madison Square

Manhattan was swamp land for a long time before Madison Square was created it was a hunting ground crossed by Cedar Creek and was soon…

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West twenty-third Street

West twenty-third Street

Wharton has the capacity to take a person on a voyage and make it your own.  Wharton’s graphic detail makes you put yourself in the…

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Drayton Hotel

Drayton Hotel

  The Drayton hotel which is actually the Drake Hotel in Chicago is located at the top of the Magnificent Mile. The Drake Hotel was…

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twenty-third street toward sixth avenue

twenty-third street toward sixth avenue

Lizzie and her partner in crime Henry Prest parted ways after the fire. Henry went uptown, while Lizzie went downtown, this is a true separation…

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Fifth Avenue Hotel

Fifth Avenue Hotel

The first climactic moment in Wharton’s novella happens at the beginning, “She was bad … always, They used to meet at the Fifth Avenue Hotel”. …

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