The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton
Chapters 7 & 8, pages 60-79
Just as things were looking good for Lily Bart, Wharton throws in a twist by ruining her carefully calculated plan to marry Percy Gryce. Or should I say that the saboteur Bertha Dorset ruined her courtship? For her own gain, Miss Dorset silently accused Lily of a simple infatuation with Gryce's financial background when she recognized the bond forming between Lily and "her" man, Selden.
The House of Mirth is starting to sound like a modern-day telenovela: a twisted plot of money, deception, and love. Only, it is a tad bit less dramatic. Nevertheless, it is developing its own entertaining story line (thankfully...). I'm actually starting to get involved in this book for the first time since I've started reading.
"The rise of her blood as theior eyes met was succeeded by a contrary motion, a wave of resistamce amd withdrawal," (Wharton, 71). NO! Lily, like the typical glossy eyed woman at a wedding, needs to imagine her own love story with Selden as the prince who comes in and rescues the poor princess from her shackles of depression. Oh well, maybe it's not meant to be, and she should end up with someone else or even alone. I can't wait to see what happens in the next episode of Lily's adventures...
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