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Morality and a Modern World

House of Mirth is set before a time where women could vote. Before society had realized the equality of the sexes, or people in general. Wharton gives readers a deep look into the inner workings and machinations of the New York elite society as a whole. We get taken from their vacation homes to their […]

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Consumerist Culture and the Commodification of Beauty

The early chapters of Edith Wharton’s House of Mirth follow socialite Lily Bart’s exploits among the economic and social elite in New York during the turn of the twentieth century. The novel provides as its setting the critical moment when consumerism in America was rapidly expanding and the pursuit of material goods was less concerned […]

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