A Literary Note - An Unnoticed Source for the Great Gatsby
The Influence of Edith Wharton's the Glimpses of the Moon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895192 |
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| Authors | Helen Killoran (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 223-224 |
| Publication date | 1990-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-021-02-06 |
| OpenAlex | W1967289168 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
In Edith Wharton's The Glimpses of the Moon, Nick Lansing leaves his wife after an argument and boards a train at random. In a coffee shop in Genoa, he is approached by Mr. Buttles, who has recently left the employ of the Hickses, wealthy Americans yachting around Europe. He has resigned because of a disagreement with Coral Hicks, ostensibly over the merits of the Tiepolo angels on the ceiling of the Scalzi Chapel. Nick feels sorry for Mr. Buttles, regarding him as "a limp image of unrequited passion" for Coral, a "hopeless suitor".1 Coral and Mr. Buttles, associated as they are with Tiepolo's angels, become two of Wharton's "guardian angel" figures, both of whom view the world clearly through spectacles of various types and take action to heal moral ills.2
Art · Art history · Literature · Passion · Theology · Wife · American and British Literature Analysis · American Jewish Fiction Analysis · History · Literary and Philosophical Studies · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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