Edith Wharton is a very well-respected and well-known writer. In 1911 she wrote her well-known book Ethan Frome. It is said that this book was Edith's most revealing novel and her finest achievement in fiction. Her book is based on a man named Ethan who falls in love with his ill wife's cousin. The entirety of the book is how their love triangle unfolds. Throughout the entire book, Edith Wharton incorporates all of her own life experiences and obstacles into her book. She folds in her own life twists in the characters plot line, and writing style. Wharton uses this as a way to make her writing more real and relatable to what some people might experience. Her books act as a coping mechanism. BODY: Edith Wharton unpurposefully incorporated her intimate and personal life …show more content…
Asya claimed that in the last decade Edith’s papers and letters went from getting attention academically to getting attention for her work being a social comedy to her intimate life and emotions. Edith’s writing was taken seriously after people found out that it was just her using her own life as a pity story. Wendy Gimbel thinks that Edith Wartons novels are her way of searching for identity and self-realization. Asya stated that Edith’s feeling of guilt created her impetus for writing. Her guilt is what compelled her to write in the first place. Edith is using her emotions to turn her book into something different and meaningful. Something truly real and unfiltered. “Wharton’s art was created, like a dream, without her conscious control, for she had no conscious access to its meaning until she had expressed that meaning as fiction,” Asya said. While writing, Wharton was in her own world of her own whirling feelings and emotions. She is so caught up in everything she doesn't even realize what she was writing about and what it was turning into. Elizabeth Ammons indicates that Wharton's novels are her evaluation of romantic love, marriage, divorce, and motherhood in the