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First published in , The House of Mirth shocked the New York society it so deftly chronicles, portraying the moral, social and economic restraints on a.
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As Lily spirals down into debt and dishonor, her story takes on the resonance of classic tragedy. With an introduction by Pamela Knights.
The upper stratum of New York society into which Edith Wharton was born in provided her with an abundance of material as a novelist but did not encourage her growth as an artist. Educated by tutors and governesses, she… More about Edith Wharton. But attached as she is to the social world of her wealthy suitors, something in her rebels against the insipid men whom circumstances compel her to charm.
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The House of Mirth Introduction
The book's satirical elements are in many ways more pronounced than its resemblance to classical tragedy. The spoken observations of Lawrence Selden serve as one way by which Wharton is able to lampoon some of the seemingly absurd strictures of the wealthy class. Selden's character, however, is two-faced in the contempt he feels for the wealthy and his simultaneous desire to live among them.
Lily is far more honest with herself — and Selden — when she defends the rites and conspicuous consumption of the wealthy as a way of life that she has been raised to accept and consider normal. Lily, however, also recognizes that the wealthy are able to follow their rules in an arbitrary fashion when she inadvertently crosses Bertha Dorset.
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Lily's ironic observation that it takes money to associate with the wealthy in order to play cards, tip, and dress appropriately is tragic in relation to her situation at the time, but also is consistent with Wharton's satirical tone. Perhaps the most significant aspects of Wharton's satire are the social-climbing Simon Rosedale and the Wellington Brys.
Both parties are unpolished, nouveau riche newcomers to New York society. Their acceptance is contingent upon their learning the manners and customs of the wealthy. In Bry's case, however, he is much better accepted into society — particularly the European set — for simply being himself than is his pretentious and climbing wife.
The House of Mirth is often compared to the novels of Wharton's contemporary Henry James in their depiction of America's idle wealthy classes and the social codes to which they adhere. Each of these novels indicts the hypocrisies of American value systems of different social classes. Such value systems, these writers hint, are antithetical to the promise of the American dream, which is a common theme of writers of the Gilded Age a term used to describe the opulent America of the s; the term is taken from the title of a novel written by Mark Twain and C.
Warner that satirizes the era.