House Of Mirth Dbq Essay

Edith Wharton’s, The House of Mirth published in 1905 was definitely letting us know that women of that time period were expected to act of a certain way and be of a certain social standing. They were also expected to be married. I feel that Lilly Bart resented the fact that women had to be up to society’s standards. Throughout the novel Lilly must change herself as if she were a chameleon. Always trying to please the people she was around, or adapt to the places or circumstances that she created for herself. Lilly Bart had to be a number of people and could never really be herself. she was always on a quest to get farther up the social ladder. Thus losing herself all along.

Title: Wharton 's The House of Mirth
Author(s): Daniel Manheim
Source: The Explicator. 60.2 (Winter 2002): p81. From Literature Resource Center.
Document Type: Critical essay
(2.) According to Richard Poirier in The Renewal of Literature: Emersonian Reflections, the scene, in effect, replays her fateful conversation with Lawrence Selden at Bellomont, in which their dialogue enacts what Emerson calls "perpetual inchoation"--a condition of constant disequilibrium that creates a constant sense of possibility" (Poirier 172).

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