ones" and was a euphemism used to refer to the furies ("House" Shmoop.) "Lily had once picked up, in a house where she was staying, a translation of the Eumenides, and her imagination had been seized by the high terror of the scene where Orestes, in the cave of the oracle, finds his implacable huntresses asleep and snatches an hour's repose. Yes, the Furies might sometimes sleep, but they were there, always there in the dark corners, and now they were awake and the iron clang of their wings was in her brain . . ." (Wharton 158.) As well as allusions to Greek mythology, Wharton's makes other allusions to the Bible and social media. A major example of this is the title The House of Mirth, which its self is a biblical allusion. The title comes from a line in the Hebrew Bible, Ecclesiastes 7:4 to be more specific: "The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth." In other words, wise people think about death and loss and other serious matters, while foolish people are busy thinking of only happy and sill
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