“Roman Fever” is about two mothers traveling to Rome with their daughters. The women's names are Alida Slade and Grace Ansley. The author develops the plot so that the story unfolds through dialogue between the characters. The whole story takes place with the two women sitting in a restaurant on the outskirts of a Roman village. As they converse in the story the author begins to create some tension between the two women. As they talk about their daughters and their personal lives, they realize that they really don't know much about each other. Edith Wharton, the author of “Roman Fever,” does a great job of making the characters in the story relatable to real life. Wharton reveals that Alida has always been jealous of her friend Grace. Even though they actually come from the same social class, Alida had always thought that Grace had something better than her. Wharton later reveals that Alidia's jealousy goes back even further, to their youth. Wharton uses the conversation between the two women in the story to reveal that Alida had forged a letter from her ...