Premium Content The Cost of Conformity
By Jory Anna Nagel - May 09, 2005
According to the Marxist theoretician Louis Althusser, society's class structure and gender roles depend primarily not on economics, but on the power of attitudes and ideas. In Edith Wharton's classic work, The House of Mirth, characters show varying cognizances of this social force. Wharton's novel clearly illustrates that the evolution of a…
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