The Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton: Chapter 1.
The Bunner sisters were proud of the neatness of their shop and content with its humble prosperity.Edith Wharton's Bunner Sisters takes place in New York, 1916, where hard times have fallen upon two sisters who run a shabby little dressmaker's shop adjacent to their dwelling. The younger sister, Ann Eliza, has encountered a sickly, but educated clockmaker who sells her a clock.The Bunner sisters were proud of the neatness of their shop and content with its humble prosperity. It was not what they had once imagined it would be, but though it presented but a shrunken.
When she had tied the parcel to her satisfaction, and laid it with furtive accuracy just opposite her sister's plate, she sat down, with an air of obviously-assumed indifference, in one of the rocking-chairs near the window; and a moment later the shop-door opened and Evelina entered. The younger Bunner sister.In particular, as my analysis of Bunner Sisters will reveal, naturalism's treatment of the ideology of female sexual selection can be seen as more complex and far more responsive to a fuller range of actual turn-of-the century attitudes about this biological concept than critics often assume.
Analysis of The Deliverer Lines 1-6. In the first lines of this piece the speaker begins by describing a conversation between her mother and a “sister.” The sister is a nun in the convent and is telling the mother about her orphanage. These kids are all damaged in someway that society does not approve of. Most are “dark” or “crippled.”.
