Naturalism in The House of Mirth

Naturalism in the "home of pleasure" challenges the strict critical limits of literary naturalism, "human beings are only phenomena phenomena in the universe" (Gerard 418). A novel without room for refutation. If we let human life follow the fate of naturalism, but if a person has a certain will or simple belief about the possibility of human beings, it is imminent that people can overcome the environment and the environment I will convey my hope.

Naturalism in the "home of pleasure" challenges the strict critical limits of literary naturalism, "human beings are only phenomena phenomena in the universe" (Gerard 418). A novel without room for refutation. If we let human life follow the fate of naturalism, but if a person has a certain will or simple belief about the possibility of human beings, it is imminent that people can overcome the environment and the environment I will convey my hope.

Edith Wharton's Happy House is indeed a ritual book. In a house of pleasure this kind of good manners and rude manners means kind and kindness to fellow citizens, and to obey the social customs at that time. She clearly expressed elite seniors who built their lives and reputation in an appropriate way. In their world, people have to know what to say, what to do, or at the right moment in the face of the consequences of denaturation and humiliation brought about by so-called friends. But even the elite known for their excellent social skills is not always perfect. Indeed, the fate of Lily Bart is simply left to the hands of rude people. Sometimes she even even ignored good and evil. In this book, good manners are a sort of appearance, and below are rude and indifferent faces hidden.

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