Essays about: "Lily Bart"

Found 1 essay containing the words Lily Bart.

  1. 1. Edith Wharton's View of Women: Lily Bart in The House of Mirth

    University essay from Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)

    Author : Monique Johansson; [2011]
    Keywords : Edith Wharton; The House of Mirth; Lily Bart; Literary Text Analysis; Feminism; New Historicism;

    Abstract : In this essay I plan to show how Wharton, through Lily, criticised society, and more specifically its expectations of women. My thesis is that Wharton and her character Lily exposed the upper class society of New York, and its ruthlessness, by voicing a woman’s point of view. READ MORE