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Lily Bart is a beautiful and well-born New York socialite - but she's not rich. She needs to make the right marriage if she's to hold her position, but scruples hold her back just when everything seems to be in her grasp.
For me this was about missed opportunities and lacking the courage of your convictions. Lily was trapped halfway between fortune-hunting and following her heart, and she saw everything slipping through her fingers. ...more
For me this was about missed opportunities and lacking the courage of your convictions. Lily was trapped halfway between fortune-hunting and following her heart, and she saw everything slipping through her fingers. ...more
Lily should be a character one hates and yet she's so sympathetic. I really felt for her, in her thwarted attempts to succeed in society, in her thwarted love, in her sad end. And the bit with the sense of falling asleep with the baby in her arms - that slayed me.
Read in Seoul, July 2005. ...more
Read in Seoul, July 2005. ...more
To many of us alive today, only a century or so separates us from Lily Bart, the heroine of The House of Mirth. The restrictions by which women such as Lily were bound during New York’s Gilded Age are almost unimaginable today to American women. Feeling frustrated at times with Lily’s self-sabotaging, I had to keep reminding myself that Lily was trying to be true to herself in a society that would only allow her to be true to it.
When we meet the beautiful, self-assured Lily, she is 29 years old ...more
When we meet the beautiful, self-assured Lily, she is 29 years old ...more
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