Fidelity (Annotated)

Susan Glaspell's Fidelity is a penetrating social novel about love, reputation, and the moral discipline imposed by small-town America. Centered on Ruth Holland, whose transgressive attachment to a married man estranges her from her community, the book examines how "fidelity" may signify loyalty not only to social law, but to desire, conscience, and selfhood. Written in supple realist prose, it be...