Wharton the house of mirth5/25/2023 Wharton’s sublime sentences and austere language contrast markedly with Yezierska’s Yiddish-inflected broken-English and overwrought pursuit of the inexpressible. Unable to settle for the role of a leisure class ornamental wife, and unprepared for any gainful professional employment, she slowly wilts like a hothouse flower, teetering at the precipice and falling from the heights of New York Society.Īnzia Yezierska and Edith Wharton are two writers of social realist fiction with dramatically different styles and strategies. After cultivating their daughter for a life of wealth and privilege, Lily’s parents die and leave her penniless. The House of Mirth is Edith Wharton’s 1905 novel about Lily Bart, a young woman of beauty and breeding who can neither escape nor find refuge within the privileged social class into which she was born.
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