The material wealth in The House of Mirth is shown through this main storyline. ... Lily runs into a woman whom she once gave charity money to and is asked to come to her house and warm up. ... Selan goes to Lily's house to clear things up between the two of them. ... The House of Mirth can be compared to The Rise of Silas Lapham in terms of material wealth and class level in society. ... The same is true in The House of Mirth. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The House of Mirth takes place in New York during the early 20th century. At this time in New York the prosperous and wealthy members of society lived in luxury in extravagant houses with various additional assets such as yachts and motorcars. ... The climax of The House of Mirth occurs when Gus Trenor tries to rape Lily. ... Also, The House of Mirth is clearly focused on the aspect of the influence of society on one's life. ... The House of Mirth was a captivating story. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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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Through out the novel, The House of Mirth, Lily Bart's character changes mentally, emotionally and socially. She starts out as a witty, charming, and beautiful young lady, whom is liked by all, but she ends up lonesome and afraid. She is not able to live up to her mother's teachings in becoming a we...

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• Grade Level: High School

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. She was engaged at a young age, yet the marriage was called off because of the Jones family's snobbish reput...

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"Everything about her was at once was at once vigorous and exquisite, at once strong and fine. He had a confused sense that she must have cost a great deal to make, that a great many dull and ugly people must, in some mysterious way, have been sacrificed to produce her. He was aware that the qualities distinguishing her from the herd of her sex were chiefly external, as though a fine glaze of beauty and fastidiousness had been applied to vulgar clay." -(p 3.) Readers are offered these early impressions of Lily Bart from the mind of Lawrence Selden as they walk toward his flat on Madison Avenue...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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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• Grade Level: High School

This time they thought nothing fun and stopped creeching with such mirth, and had to submit to...Alexander the Large... but both were very drunken and could not feel much... they were creeching.. as they put their platties [clothes] on..."...

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• Grade Level: High School

It is thought that Shakespeare wrote this play to be performed first at the country house of a young nobleman, as part of his wedding festivities. ... Rather than marry a man she despises (Demetrius), Hermia elopes with her beloved Lysander, setting off into the Athenian woods, en route to Lysander's aunt's house where they can marry secretly. ... Instead, he comes up with a plan by which he and Hermia can escape to safety and marry at his aunt's house outside Athens. ...

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• Grade Level: High School