Edna Ferber

One of the most highlighted novelist of the 20s This playwright

and short writer woman who captivated the readers attention
with her novels such as Showboat and Saratoga trunk. Despite of
what other critics say she was considered as a remarkable novelist
at that time.

Edna Ferber, Born in Michigan on August 15, 1885 from German

and Jewish descendent. She attended Lawrence University in
Wisconsin where graduation was a big success for her family;
before publishing her first novel, she worked in newspaper jobs.
She was considered as a feminist who believed in American
culture and ethic, which was as well one of the things that drew
attention to the public, seeing that she differed from other
novelists at that period. Women were strong in her novels, while
man were most of the time weak she didnt support the
mistreatment of Latinos, African American or other people who
were not considered part of United States. If her women are
vigorous, Ferbers men incline to be weakcharming, romantic,
idealistic, but impotent and irresponsible. Gaylord Ravenal, the
dashing Show Boat challenge, cannot reliably provide for his
family and eventually deserts them. Yancey Cravat, though
another fearless and adventurous figure, is perpetually lonely his
wife and children.
Most of Ferbers novels were financial successes, and many
remained in print for decades after their first publication. Her first
novels, Dawn OHara and Fanny Herself, are efficiently
autobiographical. Her final novel, Ice Palace, is a political tract of
little literary merit; Ferber was sick at the time of its writing. It is a
fine line, in Ferbers fiction, between an estimable appreciation of
the blissful side of life and an irresponsible abandonment of ones
obligation, and it is an infrequent character in Ferber who is able
to cumulate joyfulness and obligation as Selina does in So Sizably
voluminous.
They remain intriguing because they show Ferbers literary
magnification. The background material in Great Son, a later work,
is inadequate, the characters are stereotypical, and the plot is
fake. At the time of that novels print, during World War II, Ferber
was preoccupied with writing propaganda to avail in the war
effort.
In Conclusion Ferber wanted to state the fact that controlling
others lives was another recurrent theme in her works. Even the
virtuous woman is culpable of this, struggling to turn her son into
an artist when he is authentically more fascinated with
conventional forms of prosperity and making own benefit for
himself like money and other primarily stuff. People have to be
sanctioned to pursue their own lives and make their own
mistakes, more than one Ferber character verbalizes. This seems
to be Ferbers view as well, but the result is a certain pain when
people judge in favor of materialism in rather than art. So as a
moral for us making our own way to success, choosing intelligently
asking for advices to the most wise, to make life worthy as it is
and be courageous for what is going to benefit us and our loved
ones.