Abstract
Abstract This article refers to the author’s experience in teaching Edith Wharton in Spain. In particular it makes a case for the teaching of Bunner Sisters, a story that lends itself especially well to examine motifs and concerns that permeate Wharton’s entire oeuvre: her strong strand of determinism, her concern for women’s predicaments, and her nuanced attention to living space. By engaging students in a spatial reading of the story, in particular the shop and the backroom in which the sisters live—a dwelling precariously poised between the commercial and the private—this article suggests that a deeper understanding of the novella may be attained.
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