In The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton presents the New York society at the dawn of the 20th century. It is a New York that is divided into strict social classes, where old wealth is being overshadowed by new wealth. The ones below aspire to move higher while those do everything in their po...

February 6, 2001 Good Manners or Bad Manners in The House of Mirth Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth is definitely a book of manners. Manners in this Good Manners or Bad Manners in The House of Mirth sense relate to being kind and considerate to fellow human beings and following the social...

In the book, The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton, the characters are extremely interesting in how they choose to present themselves. There is one social group in which they are all rich upper class Americans, with an aura of snobbishness surrounding them. Then there is one woman who ran with ...