Happy House

About This Novel

"Fun House" is Edith Wharton's first novel that caused a great sensation. It was first published in 1905 and sold 140,000 copies within two months of its release. This is a social novel and a text of American naturalistic literature. As soon as the novel came out, it caused a great response in the "New York Times" at that time, calling it "a novel with extraordinary shocking power". The author places his protagonist Lily in the context of New York's upper class society in the 1870s, and shows the tragic life of this woman who is full of inner tangles and struggles between social customs and traditions. The main clue of the novel revolves around the life experience of the protagonist, Miss Lily Bart, in the upper class society. She is an aristocratic lady from New York's upper class. Because her family suffered financial bankruptcy and both her parents died, she had to live with her aunt who was withdrawn and indifferent by nature. The concept instilled by her childhood education and mother is to find a rich husband with her beauty and live a wealthy and luxurious life in the upper class. She also has this goal. However, Lily is also a contradictory body. In her heart, she is not completely content with eating, drinking and having fun like other upper class women, so she has always struggled between material desires and spiritual pursuits. In the process, she has a The only person who could communicate with her soul was Lawrence Selden, who also came from the upper class and worked as a lawyer. However, their relationship was always inseparable due to various factors. In the process, Lily also encountered various misunderstandings, rumors, betrayal by friends, being deprived of her inheritance by her aunt, being forced to work as a secretary due to poverty, working in a hat-making truck to make a living, and many other experiences. When Selden finally confirmed his true feelings for her and rushed to her residence passionately to confess his love to her, he unexpectedly learned that she had died a few hours ago in the plight of poverty and illness. Two people who were originally dependent on each other finally came together in this form of yin and yang.

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