 She stood just as Zeena had stood, a lifted lamp in her hand, against the black background of the kitchen. She held the light at the same level, and it drew out with the same distinctness her slim young throat and the brown wrist no bigger than a child's.  Scribner's Magazine ... - Página 3151911Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Edith Wharton - 1911 - 438 páginas
...the key turn, to see his wife before him on the threshold; but the door opened, and Mattie faced him. She stood just as Zeena had stood, a lifted lamp in...lustrous fleck on her lips, edged her eyes with velvet shade, and laid a milky whiteness above the black curve of her brows. transformed and glorified her.... | |
 | Edith Wharton - 1911 - 214 páginas
...key turn, to see his wife before him on the threshold ; but the door opened, and Mattie faced him. She stood just as Zeena had stood, a lifted lamp in...kitchen. She held the light at the same level, and 87 it drew out with the same distinctness her slim young throat and the brown wrist no bigger than... | |
 | Edith Wharton - 1922 - 204 páginas
...turn, to see his wife before him on the threshold; but the door opened, and Mattie faced him. _She stood just as Zeena had stood, a lifted lamp in her...lustrous fleck on her lips, edged her eyes with velvet shade, and laid a milky whiteness above the black curve of her brows. She wore her usual dress of darkish... | |
 | Susan Goodman - 1990 - 224 páginas
...narrator's imagination when he enters the Frome kitchen and then in the vision he attributed to Ethan: "She stood just as Zeena had stood, a lifted lamp...throat and the brown wrist no bigger than a child's" (EF, 81). Wharton simultaneously exposes the distortion of Mattie's characterization and the self-serving... | |
| |
