Fidelity (Summarized Edition)

Fidelity (1915) is a portrait of a Midwestern community confronted by a woman's refusal to repent. When Ruth Holland returns to her Iowa hometown years after leaving with a married lover, Glaspell stages collisions among conscience, public judgment, and the changing meanings of loyalty. The novel's psychological realism, tempered irony, and dramatic scene-building reveal the labors of sympathy and...