From the Misread to the Misreader: the Irony Narrative in "The Other Two"

DOI

10.2991/ssphe-17.2017.18How to use a DOI?

Keywords

The Other Two; Edith Wharton; misread; irony; narrative

Abstract

The short story "The Other Two" adopts the hero Mr. Waythorn as the center of consciousness. In his perspective, his wife undergoes a dramatic change from angel to witch. However, he might not be a reliable narrator, whose vision deserves a cautious treatment. The irony narrative in this story lies in a double framework, -- in Waythorn's critical misreading of his wife, the readers in turn, shed a new light on himself. As the story moves on, the author skillfully lets the hero betray himself, and emerged his own limitations as well as female's inferiority and suppression in patriarchy society on the whole.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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