In her book the writer means to compare these two opposite worlds and demonstrate the advantage of the old world over the new one. These changes build up the background of the novel. Edith Wharton saw the fall of the elegant and exquisite culture, the conventional moral, as well as the beginning of the new era of the bourgeois coarse pragmatism. The author herself belonged to the New-York aristocracy and being aware of its specific features could easily reveal the weak sides of its old social pattern with its cultural limitations and tight codes of contact. In addition, we would lke to prove that the way the author described the main characters enables the reader to compare and contrast two oppositional worlds and make conclusion on which of them is better. Moreover, I believe that the fact that she had to suffer the consequenses of those problems herself enabled Edith Wharton to vividly describe the essence of the tragedy and deliver its main idea to the reader, as well as express her own attitude to the situation. In this work I would like to demonstrate how the author managed to reflect the main social problems of her time in the novel. The novel “The House of Mirth” written by Edith Wharton in 1905 is the story of a young poor girl Lily Bart who in her struggle for a good marriage breaks the stereotypes of the high society and, therefore, is subject to a kind of ostracism. Relation of Global Warming and Extreme Weather Condition Power Point Presentation With Speaker Notes
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