Helga Crane, xiv–xv, 5, 19–20, 24, 26–27, 117–130, 140, 142–145, 147, 151–153

Hemingway, Ernest, 2, 147, 155

heredity, x, 2, 4–5, 8–10, 19–21, 24, 26–28, 30, 42, 53–54, 57–59, 77, 98, 108, 113, 117, 124, 142, 147, 150–152

Hochman, Barbara, 53, 159

Howells, William Dean, 12, 155

Hussman, Lawrence E. Jr., 69, 74, 78, 159

industrialism, 9, 61, 93

Iola Leroy,, 23

Iola Leroy, 23

irreconcilable oppositions, 19

Isabel Archer, 21

James Vayle, 125, 131, 133, 143–144

James, Henry, 21

Jean Muir, 148

Jewett, Sarah Orne, 23, 108, 149, 155

Julia Peniston, 18

Keats, John, 6

“La Belle Dame Sans Merci,”, 6, 142

Lady Brett Ashley, 6

Larsen, Nella, x, xiv, 2, 5, 20, 27, 117–118, 120, 122–123, 137–138, 147, 156

Larson, Charles, 134, 139, 159

Lehan, Richard, 61, 65, 69–71, 74, 159

Lily Bart, 17–18

Lola Osborne, 81

Lundquist, James, 66, 85, 159

Madame Ratignolle, 90, 94, 100, 103–104

Mademoiselle Reisz, 90, 103, 105

Maggie, 145–146

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets,, 145

Marchand, Ernest, 54–55, 159

Marcus Schouler, 31, 33, 36–37

Maria Macapa, 46–47, 105

Martin, Wendy, 101, 159

McAleer, John J., 65, 74, 76, 160

McDowell, Deborah, 135, 137, 139, 160

McElrath, Joseph Jr., 44, 46–47, 160

McTeague, 1, 20, 25–26, 29–30, 42, 44, 48–49, 52–53, 84, 93, 106, 108, 110, 112, 114, 138, 156

McTeague, xii–xiii, 4, 24, 26–56, 69, 78, 82–84, 86, 100, 132, 140, 142–143, 149, 151–152

Medusa, 32

Miller, Ericka M., 136, 160

Miss Baker, 46, 105

Mitchell, Lee Clark, xii, 11, 160

Monsieur Ratignolle, 104

mother-woman, 98, 105, 109