Edith Wharton is one of America's most celebrated female novelists, with an esteemed devotion to fiction works. Wharton was born Edith Jones in 1862, into an upper class New York City family. ... Edith Wharton finally divorced her husband in 1913, but never relinquished his last name. ... Wharton had overcome a great hurdle in literature. ... Wharton, like many other novelists, produced several short stories and novels, but found true success in The House of Mirth in 1905. ...

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THE HOUSE OF MIRTH In the 1900's, women were faced with many obstacles to overcome. ... The greatest aspect of Terence Davies' "The House of Mirth" is that it's such a downer. ... According to the San Francisco Chronicle, "Edith Wharton's 1905 novel was more than an exquisite chronicle of upper-echelon etiquette. ... The Washington Post states, "Like a corkscrew slowly, inexorably penetrating a bottle of spoiled wine, filmmaker Terence Davies's brilliant, astringent version of Edith Wharton's "The House of Mirth" painstakingly worms its way downwa...

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Set at the turn of the twentieth century, the novel The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton offers a complete and insightful view to the varying degrees of classes that made up the women's society at the time. ... Overall, if the novel The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton was the only source of information on society at the turn of the century, it could be concluded that the pressures, standards, and expectations of society greatly shaped the personalities of the women of the time. ...

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Ethan Frome was considered by many to be Edith Wharton's finest novel. ... Edith Wharton was born in 1862 to a wealthy family involved in New York City society. ... Her reputation and place in history as a novelist was established beyond a doubt with the publication of The House of Mirth in 1905. ... Her last novel Bunner Sisters was published in 1909, and Edith Wharton passed away in 1937. Wharton was a writer of the twentieth century. ...

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The novels we have read thus far, "The House of Mirth as well as Bread Givers" illustrates these ideas. The "House of Mirth" written by Edith Wharton illustrates how clothing as well as fashion is a big part of society and how it ties the individual to a certain dress code to be accepted. ...

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In Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, elements of naturalism are used to show how the protagonist Lily Bart's life is controlled by her struggle between love and money. According to Encarta's electronic encyclopedia, "naturalistic writers regard human behavior as controlled by instinct, emotion, o...

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In Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, loneliness is caused by poverty and depression. ... Loneliness is a dominant theme in The House of Mirth. ... Lily is also aging quickly, but not as much as Wharton makes it seem. ...

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In Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, the main character, Lily Bart, starts off with two goals: to marry well and acquire wealth. ... Lily hated to be "poor, to look forward to a shabby, anxious middle age, leading by dreary degrees of economy and self-denial to gradual absorption in the dingy communal existence of the boarding-house. ... She hates living in the boarding house, but compared to the feeling of loneliness she has it does not matter. ...

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Lily Bart's Loneliness: A Self-Realization Loneliness is a prevalent theme throughout Edith Wharton's novel, The House of Mirth. The following passage relates to the theme of loneliness and dramatizes Lily Bart's dilemma of poverty: All she looked on was the same and yet changed. There was a great g...

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In The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton and The Awakening by Kate Chopin, I was hoping to find those strong women role models because they were written by women. ... In The House of Mirth, we are introduced to Lily Bart who is considered the "heroine" of this particular tale. ... In describing her, Lawrence Seldon sees Lily as "at once vigorous and exquisite, at once strong and fine" (Mirth 7). Lily has all of the markings of what we would now see as a successful woman because she not only beautiful, she is also described as "practical" (Mirth 39), "intelligen...

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As in other works of this genre (for example, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth), Daisy Miller focuses on the behavior of its characters in social situations. ...

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