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• William Dean Howells
• The Rise of Silas Lapham: A Story of Self-Identity, Self-Respect, and Morality
• THE RISE OF SILAS LAPHAM

The next day, Bromfield visits Lapham, and he is quick to try and act nonplussed at the privilege of the visit. He is condescending towards Bromfield. Silas is ill, and stays at home the next day. Tom visits them to inquire after his health, and is obliged to spend time with Irene. Persis asks Penelope if Tom ever talks to her about Irene, but she cannot think of when he does. Mrs Corey and her two daughters, Lilly and Nanny, return to Boston in the autumn months. They decide that they need to meet the Lapham sisters, to figure out who their new relative may be.

She invites Mrs Lapham and her daughters over, and is repulsed by their obvious lack of social knowledge and propriety. Penelope recognises this, and states that Mrs Corey looked at her as if she had bought her, and thought she paid too much.

Mrs Corey concedes that she will have to ask them to dinner. The Coreys begin to plan a large dinner party, despite Tom asking them not to. When the Laphams receives the invitation, it causes a great deal of worry as to what they will each wear, how they will act, and what they will talk about. In a memorable part of the novel, Silas consults many etiquette books on whether you have to wear gloves to parties. Silas is extremely nervous, and drinks a lot of the wine that is on the table. For the first time in his life, he is drunk. The dinner party conversation is lead by Bromfield, and touches on many subjects such as poverty, art and criticism of the romantic novel Tears, Idle Tears.

Once the women leave, Lapham gets increasingly more drunk, telling the others about his war stories and then about his paint. Eventually, he constantly talks until no-one else does. The next day, Lapham gives a grovelling apology to Tom for his behaviour.

Tom is repulsed by how pathetic Silas is, but is sympathetic towards him. Tom visits the Laphams, and discusses with Penelope about the novel Tears, Idle Tears, a conversation that she missed at the dinner party.

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She tells Tom that the love triangle, where the couple refuse to be together for the sake of the third party, is unrealistic and unnecessary. This is ironic of her actions in her own love triangle between Tom and Irene. Tom declares his love for Penelope, to which she is shocked. She begs him to leave, and not tell anyone what he has said. The next day, Penelope tells her Mother what has happened. Persis is surprised that Tom loves Penelope, and not Irene. Persis decides to confide in Silas, and asks him to come home early. When she asks Silas what to do, he suggests Penelope and Tom marry.

Persis is exasperated that Silas cannot see the damage this will do to Irene, and accuses him of being too concerned with family connections.

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Silas visits Minister Sewell, who also suggests the pair marry. Irene is stoic, and gives Penelope all the mementos she collected to do with Tom, including the wood shaving. Irene decides to visit a farming community with her cousins to process her loss. Tom visits Penelope, and is surprised that everyone thought he loved Irene. Silas finds out that the money he lent Rogers was used to buy some land with mills on it. The mills would have been worth a lot of money, but a railway that runs up to it has just been bought. Silas needs to accept their offer, otherwise cannot transport goods to the mills.

He lent Rogers too much money, and now is in debt. Tom tells his parents that he loves Penelope instead. They are surprised, but are willing to accept Penelope, the more sensible sister. Lapham accepts that he has to sell the mills for a low price. However, Roger supposedly has some English businessmen that will buy the mills for a higher price.

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He debates whether he can sell the mills without telling the businessmen they are worthless. She intends to give the paper to Silas, but forgets. Silas comes to a decision that he cannot wrongly sell the mills at a high price. He shuts down his paint factory, as increasing market competition means he is defeated. At the office, Silas tells Tom to quit the business now. Tom offers him a loan, but Silas refuses.

The Rise of Silas Lapham: A Story of Self-Identity, Self-Respect, and Morality

Silas makes her leave, but later on gives the money to Zerrilla. The typist, Walker, hints that he thinks Silas and Zerrilla are having an affair, increasing suspicion. Desperately, Silas puts the house on Beacon Street up for sale. When he does get an offer, he cannot bear to sell. He visits the next day, and a fire he lit accidentally burns the house down. It is a week after the insurance ran out, so the Laphams will receive nothing. Silas can only do this if he sells to the Englishmen at the higher price.

There is nothing heroic in suffering over an easily reversible situation.

If a woman loves a man who loves another woman, and the other woman loves the man, all know that common sense rules. The two loving parties should be together no matter the pain it would cause the other who loves but receives not. Howells knew that the reading public wanted more than this, and, in fact, was worthier of more than this, and he owed it to himself to treat his readers with honesty and respect. So it is that Irene talks with Cory about all the great books of the time, the majority of them being Romantic books, and Corey follows along with only one person on his mind, Penelope.

Just as she cannot differentiate between romances in life, she becomes confused about Romantic literature also. She was always talking about Scott. Apparently, all the books were so much alike and the formula was the same to the point where one book became so much like the other. According to the classical Romantic story, the dashing young aristocrat, if he does fall in love with a plebeian, usually falls for the shallow beautiful woman and not the witty plain girl. Corey shocks the fictitious families with his news of loving the common Penelope over the strikingly beautiful Irene. There is something about the common that gives Irene her beauty—indeed, gives the whole novel its beauty.

The common is real and is what steps outside the bounds of any story in the past. This is the beauty of Realism. The ugliness of Romanticism is pointed out countless times through a dreadful novel called Tears, Idle Tears. This belief in life and not story is the opposite of the theory behind the formerly mentioned Romantic novel. Howells condemns such a book by taking on the persona of the priest Seward to give his authorial point of view.

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What is the point of enjoyment if we are the epitome of the joke? Now compare the love story in Silas Lapham to all the talk about Tears, Idle Tears and see how romance in life really should be treated. Corey and those who agree with him represent realistic common sense, while Penelope and Irene are the insipid foolishness of the Romanticist. Those who attack the Realist love story attack their own belief system procured from the Romanticists. If the love story seems ridiculous and out of place, it is the fault of the Romanticists who had set up such a formula for these characters to fight their way out of—a fight Howells continued on throughout his literary days.