Post on 24-Dec-2015
BY ARIEL IDICA, JEFFREY RODOWICZ, AMBER THEREALT, KIRA GOYETT, CAITY GODA, AND JOHN
WHITEHOUSE
Realistic Period (1865-1918)
ADVANCED PLACMENT ENGLISH 12008
Vocabulary
• Detailed
• Accurate
• Unembellished
• Unromantic
• Spontaneous
• Authentic
• Truthful
• Dialect, Regionalisms
• Influential
• Proportional Architecture
Authors
Social interactions
Events of their time
Satiric
Edith Wharton
Mark Twain Rebecca Harding
Davis
Henry James
Kate Chopin
Emily Dickinson
Life in the Iron Mills
“The idiosyncrasy of this town is smoke. It rolls sullenly in slow folds from the great chimneys of the iron-foundries, and settles down in black, slimy pools on the muddy streets. Smoke on the wharves, smoke on the dingy boats, on the yellow river,-- clinging in a coating of greasy soot to the house-front, the two faded poplars, the faces of the passers-by. The long train of mules, dragging masses of pig-iron through the narrow street, have a foul vapor hanging to their reeking sides. Here, inside, is a little broken figure of an angel pointing upward from the mantel-shelf; but even its wings are covered with smoke, clotted and black. Smoke everywhere! A dirty canary chirps desolately in a cage beside me. Its dream of green fields and sunshine is a very old dream,--almost worn out, I think.”
Ethan Frome
At the challenge Ethan turned back into the room and faced her. "I can tell you, then. The cat done it."
"The cat?""That's what I said."She looked at him hard, and then turned her
eyes to Mattie, who was carrying the dish-pan to the table.
"I'd like to know how the cat got into my china-closet"' she said.
"Chasin' mice, I guess," Ethan rejoined. "There was a mouse round the kitchen all last evening."
Zeena continued to look from one to the other; then she emitted her small strange laugh.
Ethan Frome Continued
“"You wanted to make the supper-table pretty; and you waited till my back was turned, and took the thing I set most store by of anything I've got, and wouldn't never use it, not even when the minister come to dinner, or Aunt Martha Pierce come over from Bettsbridge-" Zeena paused with a gasp, as if terrified by her own evocation of the sacrilege. “