Course 9—Lecture

"Roman Fever" Edith Wharton (LitCourse 8)
• The Colosseum, an place of battle, suggests a more subtle battle of wills between two women.
• Grace Slade's knitting needles are like a weapon, or her knitting like a web of entrapment for Alida.
• Afternoon shadows suggest a shadow falling on the friendship, a dark secret soon to be revealed.