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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