Edith ยท Wharton's birthplace is a strict model of the golden era of the upper class. It teaches complex art that maintains its appearance and incorporates a whimsical leisure course. At the same time, the basic purpose of the novel is to deliberately criticize this social order. The permanence of Lily Bath is reluctantly seeking stabilization of fiscal finance and large-scale approval, but it is a tool to show off money, the absurdity surrounding public opinion and the constant exaggeration.
Edith Wharton 's The House of Mirth (1995) was adapted from the stage of Dawn Keeler. The play was done by Cambridge Theater Company of Royal Theater in Winchester, England. After the first production, the show was seen in the UK for 9 weeks. This modern adaptation provides a story emphasizing freedom, interpersonal relations, and tragedy in the interpretation of the Lilly Burt story in the second half of the 20th century.
Edith Wharton's "Home of Joy" made an interesting study on the social construction of subjectivity. The Victorian society where Wharton merchant lives is defined by a rigid moral and ritual structure whose individual identity is determined by consistency or violation of obvious social norms. The distinguishing feature of this social identity brand is its clear word. In this case, the behavior itself is presented as text, and the social assessment of characters in the novel is the process of deciphering scripts of such behavior. According to this societal social grammar, the behavior of people here is easy to read. The treatment of the novel of this social reading concept stands out through depreciation of the written text and its easy-to-read behavior.
Edith Wharton 's Happy Home is a bit different from that of England. Wharton's American "Ritual Novel" and Jane Austen's "Sense and Emotion" are more distorted than those of the times; unlike the UK era, the House of Mars developed in the American environment It is. Among them, problems such as ranking have a greater impact on society than in Europe. Wharton's hero became the victim of realism that surged in American literature. Unlike the rationality and emotion that bourgeois-like lifestyle was overcome, House of Mirth earned a living by Lily Bart who dreamed of marrying unfulfilled wealth. Because her true love, a man named Lawrence Selden is departing from Lily's marriage, humility and admiration for bourgeois-like lifestyles constrain her happiness. Give New York elite's needs