The story “Editha” by William Dean Howells talks about Editha, who is the main character of the story, was recognized as a romantic war lover. George Gearson, who is Editha’s boyfriend has been determined to make perfect with his wife Editha. The story is being told from the narrator’s first point of view. The story “Editha” was taken place at her home on a hot spring afternoon. Editha is fleshed out in the story as an intrigue, devious woman who drives her engaged boyfriend to war. She writes him a letter in which she doesn’t want him to read about how she would leave him if he didn’t go fight for America. She wants him to be a real fighter, even when she found out that his father lost his arm in the Civil War. During that time, the Spanish-American