questions of choice and morals in 'The Spoils of Poynton'

Essay from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Freiburg, course: Henry James in Transition, language: English, abstract: Many of the critics writing about The Spoils of Poynton belong to one of two groups: “Either they take Fleda to be the heroine of the story in the traditional sense […] or they have taken her to be neurotic and self-deceiving, pa...