Short Fiction Wharton, Edith: Coming Home, v.1, 4 Feb 2008.

[Patricia]

A long-ish short story, first published in Scribner’s Magazine in 1916, set in France during the First World War.

A young French officer has trouble getting his family to accept his fiancée because she is a New Woman. But they come to eat their words after a particularly enterprising tactic of hers.

In Edith Wharton’s earlier works (The Sanctuary; The Touchstone; Bunner Sisters) women are portrayed as having a self-sacrificial nature, which sometimes has the effect of redeeming a man. Here we can see Wharton sympathetically examining a more feminist perspective; though it is still framed through a male narrator’s viewpoint.

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