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House of Mirth follow-up
9 Jul 07
Looking back at my brief post after reading Wharton’s House of Mirth, I’m tempted to re-write it—the post, not the novel. Perhaps what I wanted to say about Lily was simply, How could she have been so stupid? Was her tragic flaw something as simple as thinking herself better than she was? Or better than those around her?
I’m at risk of going over old ground that I never had time to till properly, and has now laid fallow so long I wouldn’t know where to start working to bring things back to life (much like this increasingly painful farming analogy). I only started this post to make note of a couple Acephelous posts that discuss House of Mirth:
Argument? Check. Evidence? Check. Then What, Exactly, Is The Problem?
Posted by pzed on July 9, 2007 at 11.12am
Categories: scripture
