Lily Bart is an incredibly vain woman in The House of Mirth. She is a young, intelligent, manipulative woman whose soul purpose in life is to marry a rich man. The plot attempts to make her appear as the victim to the demands of society that she marry young and to a rich man. I […]
Gillian Anderson and Lily Bart
Gillian Anderson has always been a wonderful actress. And I absolutely adore her in everything she has been in, like the television shows The X-Files and The Fall- except this movie. She is not the Lily I had pictured, and doesn’t hold the character in the regard Lily deserved. There’s no doubt that she plays […]
Fanworks and Spoiler Alerts
Though it could be contested, I think that one of the most sincere forms of appreciation for any medium can be found in fanworks. Fanfiction and fanart are generally looked down on as being lesser in some way than original works, but I think that they can be just as important as, and many times […]