fayesmovinglibrary 's review for:

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

3.75

challenging dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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🍂positives: 
- I love the conversations that can be had about gender, sexism/womanhood in the early 1900’s, capitalism + the economic proposition of marriage for women, & race
- some very pretty lyrical descriptive writing at times 
- some beautiful and profound quotes that touched me in regards to womanhood & loneliness
- lily’s story was quite sad & she just couldn’t catch a break 

🍂negatives:
- I really did not care for the gossipy rich white people in this New York High society so it was obnoxious how much of this story centred around it at times, it definitely got a bit dry for me 
- quite literally every single male potential love interest for Lily
- Lily herself even was quite obnoxious/spoiled/privileged  at times