Category: Book The House Of Mirth

With the opening of Edith Wharton’s “The House of Mirth”, we get introduced to our protagonist, a 29-year-old beautiful woman, Lily Bart, who is waiting at the Grand Central Station. Like many unmarried woman, Lily too wishes to get married to someone wealthy in order to belong to the higher class and stabilize herself financially.…

The House of Mirth 1. Lily Bart is simultaneously a product and a victim of the society she was born into. She cannot choose between two possible ways of living: to hunt for wealth or long for love and understanding. She was taught that her goal of life was to find a wealthy man and…