"On Lily Bart's Specializations and Survival in the Upper Class": What Women Want: Desire and the Modern American Novel
[Introduction] Lily Bart, the queen of easy elegance and perfectly-timed blushes, experiences a dramatic fall in status in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth. Once a socialite whose presence hosts vied for, Lily progressively falls into more and more dishonorable positions until she ultimately peris...