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Fools of Fate
UNITED STATES · 1909

Fools of Fate

D.W. Griffith
marital discontent social ambition frontier life class aspiration female dissatisfaction
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Synopsis

Fanny is the wife of Ben Webster, a trapper, and while he is an affectionate and dutiful husband, she yearns for something which appears better than her lot. She reasons: "Have I not youth and beauty and attainments far above this environment? Why should I be compelled to toil and struggle in this wilderness?"

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