Premium Content Transaction or Transaction: Lily's Choice at the End of The House of Mirth
By Eddie Borey - April 13, 2000
Near the beginning of The House of Mirth, Wharton establishes that Lily would not indeed have cared to marry a man who was merely rich: "she was secretly ashamed of her mothers crude passion for money" (38). Lily, like the affluent world she loves, has a strange relationship with money. She needs money to buy the type of life she has been raised to…
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