In addition, we would lke to prove that the way the author described the main characters enables the reader to compare and contrast two oppositional worlds and make conclusion on which of them is better. Moreover, I believe that the fact that she had to suffer the consequenses of those problems herself enabled Edith Wharton to vividly describe the essence of the tragedy and deliver its main idea to the reader, as well as express her own attitude to the situation. In this work I would like to demonstrate how the author managed to reflect the main social problems of her time in the novel. The novel “The House of Mirth” written by Edith Wharton in 1905 is the story of a young poor girl Lily Bart who in her struggle for a good marriage breaks the stereotypes of the high society and, therefore, is subject to a kind of ostracism. Relation of Global Warming and Extreme Weather Condition The novel was serialised in Scribner's Magazine in 1905 and aspects of it now seem old fashioned but its depiction of social mores and their influence gives it universal resonance.Power Point Presentation With Speaker Notes Wharton shows us exactly how women like Lily could be smothered by the upper reaches of society, where individual tragedies are easily subsumed by the current of other people lives. But Lily can neither accept the yoke of conventional behaviour nor shrug it off and she flounders in the space between. Even the way they break society's rules seem to follow the rules. Other characters in the novel operate within the parameters of their class, sex and wealth.
Her heroine sinks in stages – failing to snare Percy Gryce or Sim Rosedale as a husband, gambling away large sums of money, being accused of having an affair with a friend's husband, losing her inheritance – until she is reduced to working in a milliner's, her reputation tarnished.
Wharton is mercilessly frank as she chronicles Lily's fall from grace, contrasting psychological insights with descriptions of external effects.
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