The Custom of the Country

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركااته
كيفكم ان شاءالله كويسين


حبيت اسالكم عن هذي النوفل
ابي شرح لها بالعربي واهم الاحداث فيها

قريتها بس ما احس اني ما فهمتها صح



اتمنى احد اذا كان درسها انو يعطيني نبذة عنها بالعربي





شكرا مقدما

وعليكم السلام ورحمة الله وبركاته ‘‘‘‘

بــــآلنسبه للروايه هــــذي مــآقد مرت علي قبـــل ,,,

والتـــرم هذا مــآداومت للحين ولا ادري شو منهجنا الروآيه ,,,, إذا كانت هي مــآراح آقصر معــآكِ

ان شاء الله ..

الله يجزاك خير
اذا كانت هي عطيني خبر
ونصير على تنواصل حتى نستفيد من بعض ان شاء الله
مشكوووووررررررة

اي والله ياليييت هالروايه كثير صعبه ومو فاهمينها حتى مالقينا لها ترجمه ولا شررح بليييييييز نريد مساعد

اهلين

ابقول لكم اللي فهمته

اول شي انو البطلة اسمها ((undine))
جت مع ابوها وابوها لنيويورك طلبا للغناء والمال من apex لانهم هم كانوا من الطبقة الفوق المتوسطة بس يبون يوصلون لـ هاااي كلاااس
طبعا اول 3 شابترز كلها وصف لجمالها ولبتها وكيف هي عايشة وكان عندهم فازات من ذهب وكراسي وهيك شيااات

الموهم انو يووم جوا نيويورك حاولت هالبطلة تدخل للطبقات الرايقة وطبعا جمالها كان يساعدها

تعرفت على رالف وكان غني وكبير بالسن وتزوجته وحققت اللي في بالها انها تدخل للطبقة الغنية حتى ابوها استفاد من زواجها وصار بينه وبين رالف صفقااات

مع الوقت رالف تدهور عمله وصار ما يقدر يغطي تبذيرها واسرافها المستمر
المشكلة انو هي ما حست في زوجها ولا حست انو تعبان او عنده مشاكل فكانت هي قضية ثانية عند اهله انو غيرها تبذيرها واسرافها وانها ما تشتغل كمااان ما تحس ولا تشعر بزوجها ولا تدري عنه

undine حست انو اهل زوجها مابيونها فخافت انو يقولوا لزوجها شي ويطلقها ففكرت وقررت انها تجيب ولد تربط فيه رالف وفعلا حملت وجابت بوول

انديني انسانه تحب المظاهر وهي مرررة مرررة shollow


رااااااح اكمل بعدين

هذا سمرري لقيته بالنت وحبيت افيد اللي يبيه

Context
It was published at a time when she herself was going through a divorce. She had, however, started writing the novel as early as Spring 1908 when she had completed six chapters in France. Then she stopped for a couple of years, and translated her difficulty to write through Ralph Marvell's own inability to write too. It was in 1912 and 1913 that she managed to put an end to the novel, when she declared, "I have taken up again my sadly neglected "great American novel"." It was first serialised in a literary magazine, The Scribner's Magazine, in January 1913, and then appeared in book form in October of that same year.


Plot introduction
Undine Spragg, a social upstart, arrives in New York City from Apex with her parents and attempts to find a husband to go up the social ladder.


Plot summary
The Spraggs, a family of Westerners from Apex who have made money through shady financial dealings, arrive in New York City at the prompting of their daughter Undine who is dissatisfied with their station. For a while Undine struggles to enter the top echelons of society until finally she meets Ralph Marvell, a member of the old upper-class New York society, and they get married. Although Ralph cares for Undine a great deal and caters to her every whim, unfortunately his financial situation does not permit the kind of extravagances Undine desires. Undine's unsatisfied greed leads her into an affair with nouveau riche Van Degen and after having a child, Paul, with Ralph, she divorces him hoping to marry Van Degen. For a period of a few years Undine lives in North Dakota, New York and Paris while trying to work out a way to divorce Ralph and marry Van Degen, who does not seem to want any further contact with her. In Paris Undine meets a former acquaintance, a French Count who desires her hand in marriage. Her future husband, Raymond De Chelle is a French aristocrat whose faith does not permit a marriage with a divorcee. To procure money for an annulment, Undine blackmails her previous husband, Ralph Marvell. Undine is willing to allow Ralph to keep custody of their only son, whom he adores, if Ralph sends her a large sum of money. Although Ralph works he does not have the sum she is requesting and must gather money from his friends and family (including the life savings of his cousin Clare who is in love with him). The money he gathers is not enough, he needs double the sum if he is to keep his son with him; devastated, Ralph enters into a deal with Elmer Moffat. The deal does not work out as planned and Ralph is told that he will not have the money by the deadline Undine set out. Unable to bear the separation from his boy Ralph commits suicide and Undine is married to Raymond De Chelle as a widow. For a while, Undine gets the glittering life she always wanted, however after a few short months, the customs of the De Chelle family and her husbands reluctance to spend extravagant sums greatly impair her vision of a perfect future. Again, she is unable to find contentment and divorces him to marry Elmer Moffat, who by now has made a fortune. Undine is finally in possession of great wealth and able to give the parties of her dreams, however, the last pages lead the reader to think that she is again dissatisfied with her situation (as divorced women can never become an Ambassador's wife and she wants what's out of reach).


Characters in "The Custom of the Country"
•Undine Spragg, a young woman, the protagonist
•Mr Spragg, a financier
•Mrs Spragg, a housewife
•Elmer Moffat, a cunning financer from Apex whom Undine marries (he is her fourth husband).
•Ralph Marvell, an old New York society gentleman who marries Undine, has a son with her and is then divorced by her
•Van Degen, a man whom Undine has an affair with
•Clare Van Degen, married to Van Degen, unhappy with their marriage; she is Ralph Marvell's cousin who is deeply in love with him
•Bowen, a man from New York City, who acts as a kind of observer
•Raymond De Chelle, a French aristocrat who marries Undine after she is widowed; he her third husband
•Paul Marvell, Undine's and Ralph's child, Raymond's stepson
•Laura Fairford, Ralph Marvells sister; it is at her dinner that Undine first meets Ralph
•Claud Walsingham Popple, a painter who paints a portrait of Undine
•Mrs. Heeny a masseuse who keeps company first to Undine and Mrs. Spragg and later to Undine and her son; she also keeps clippings of all high society events

Major Themes
Like much of Edith Wharton's work, The Custom of the Country is an obliquely feminist critique, but in this case Undine Spragg also represents the US, as the initial letters in her name suggest. It is also a social survey insofar as it deals with the phenomenon of the Marriage Mills and the business proceedings that divorce entailed at that time. There is also a confrontation between old New York and the newly rich, and between French culture and American culture. Furthermore, we may link the novel to Edith Wharton's poem Persephone, in which case Undine Spragg can be seen as a siren, marrying men in desperate (and unsuccessful) attempts to acquire a soul.


Literary significance and criticism
It belongs to her major period, which had began in 1905 with The House of Mirth. Edith Wharton herself called it, "a real magnum opus". The novel is divided into 5 books, which echoes the structure of a drama, if not a tragedy. Wavering between the Romantic and the Realist canons, the novel nevertheless follows in the wake of the literary tradition of the money-novel.

الله يعافيكم وين الكتاب في اي مكتبه لقيتوه
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