Wider Reading

Nick can be compared to Isabel - wants “to see but not to feel” and can be linked to his relationship with Jordan
Explores impact of American money on European marriage market

Written in vernacular English, but controversial due to language and use of racial slurs
Set in a period prior to the abolition of slavery
Theme of divide after the civil war

Publishers made no attempt to advertise the novel and beween1900 -1980 all editions were a second altered version. Compare to 1940 TGOW films

Was succesful but was originally rejected multiple times and it was suggested that Cather should rewrite it frm Jim’s viewpoint

Set in the old New York of Wharton’s childhood

Larsen was the first Black American to win a Guggenheim Fellowship for the book

The success of the book allowed him to become financially independent
Reportedly wrote at least 39 different versions

Immediate success but controversial
Based onaspects of the 1938 trial and arrest of Robert Nixon