6/25/2023 0 Comments The house of mirth bookEdith Wharton reflects in her fiction issues and arguments, such as criticism on conspicuous consumption in the leisure class, the economics of marriage for women and “the physical rigors and deprivations of working-class life for many Americans“ (Ammons 1990: ix), broadly current in her culture. The book is one of the few novels which can claim to rank as literature“ (Ammons 1990: 313). In Lily Bart she has created a character that will haunt the imagination of the reader and live in his memory. She can evoke the emotions of pity, horror and love. The Saturday Review (a contemporary London paper) wrote in 1906 “It is the striking art of Miss Wharton as a writer that keeps the reader’s sympathy from first to last. That is the exact description of a mental state that many will probably experience on reading The House of Mirth“ (Ammons 1990: 309). E.E.Hale, JR., a contemporary critic, wrote in his review: “we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our mind filled with the bussiest kaleidoscopic dance of images, incapable of sleep or of continuous thought. In The House of Mirth Lily’s struggle with the New York society and her fall from this circle of people is traced.Ĭritics loved this book. This society is hypocritical and unkind to those who do not completely conform to their rules and expectations. The novel is the story of Lily Bart who is a product of the society of New York. The House of Mirth is one of Edith Wharton’s most famous and most discussed novels.
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