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• W2330004123 abstract "Edith Wharton tirelessly searched for the meaning of life not only in her many stories but in her own life as well. An intellectual woman who diligently kept up on the newest scientific developments, she was keenly interested in the mysteries of life, such as the tricks played by destiny, a curious coincident, strange forebodings and supernatural phenomena. Over some time, she eventually became an architect of her own fortune, spending many tiring years in pursuit of her destiny. She went on to write various kinds of ghost stories for the sake of her own personal investigation into these unscientific phenomena. It is safe to say that the origin of her curiosity about the field is based on her childhood experiences. As Wharton says “the teller of supernatural tales should be known frightened in the telling” (11), she was not only simply tortured with groundless fear but also even scared of darkness in nighttime when she was a child. The author of Edith Wharton: A Biography, R. W. B. Lewis, tells us that “after the attack of typhoid fever in Germany when she was eight,” “Edith was possessed of a terror of certain nameless horrors” (24) and “she could not sleep at night unless a light was on and a nursemaid in the room with her” (25). In addition, Wharton says “my long and weary illness had made my parents unduly anxious about my health” (47) in her autobiography A Backward Glance (1934), and moreover, “she suffered for extended periods from eating disorders, hysteria, migraines, claustrophobia, and asthma” (Erich xi). It is clear that she was seized with a variety of physical sufferings as well as psychological trouble. As a child, she, therefore, could not dream of a rosy future even though she was actually trying to chase her cherished dream as a writer. Despite her privileged life as a member of a wealthy family in New York, mentally, she spent many painful years. This stirred her interest in mystery of life, unaccountable incidents or popular superstitions and fuels her inquiries through her ghost stories. While Wharton thinks “a good subject― must contain in itself something that sheds a light on our moral experience” (Writing 24) in general, she also says that “if it sends a cold shiver down one’s spine, it has done its job and done it well” (11) in ghost stories. It means that the ghost story is free from moral messages, beautiful dreams or a unity of the story which we tend to think necessary in the novel. The distinction between the novel and the short story, or the ghost story, was clear in Wharton’s thought. She considers “the test of the novel is that its people should be alive” (Writing 36), whereas “the greatest short stories owe their vitality entirely to the dramatic rendering of a situation” (Writing" @default.
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• W2330004123 title "Mystery of Life" @default.
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