Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth continues to surprise me. I have actually grown to like this book. Up until these last few chapters, I have felt the plot be long and uneventful. Now I can see how the drama is becoming stacked up. I have changed my mind on the climax of the story. I believe that it is now in chapter 3.
"Lily turned to obey; but as she did so, Mrs.Dorset, who had paused on her way out, moved a few steps back toward the table. 'Miss Bart is not going back to the yacht,' she said in a voice of singular distinctiveness" (Wharton, pg176).
This quote stands for the point in the novel where all of Lily Bart's actions have built up and have finally left her stranded. Now Lily is defenseless and alone. Selden also forces Lily to go back and live with her aunt who had doubt in her already. THEN, Lily was disinherited from her aunt's fortune. Her cousin Grace who did steal Mrs.Peniston's money from Lily even told her that it was she who brought on the death of their dear aunt. I'm not really sure why this Grace keeps throwing Lily under the bus. I suppose it's because she has been seen below Lily her whole life behind beauty and her aunt's approval. Then in these last few months of Mrs.Peniston's life, she swayed their aunt's mind enough to make Grace the new favorite.
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