Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth is Lily Bart a Victim

Title: Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth is Lily Bart a Victim
Category: Literature / Novels
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Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth is Lily Bart a Victim

Lily Bart, the central character in Edith Wharton’s novel, The House of Mirth , was born into the fringes of high society in late nineteenth century New York. She developed a, “lively taste for splendour”(page 30) and a fear of, ”dinginess”.(page 35). Everything within this social circle is measured in monetary value, people and things alike are treated as commodities. This is the only way of life Lily knows, and without the financial means to …showed first 75 words of 2159 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 2159 total…s ability to love an emotion that she has never been able to commodify and therefore understand. A child is a blank canvas that has no need for the materialistic world that Lily Bart belongs. All a child needs is warmth sustenance and love, it is with this thought that she dies. Lily would not have true victim if she had not realised her own misgivings in life before she was able to stop them.

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