With Lily now greatly abased to she finds the strength to swallow her pride, and serve Mrs. Norma Hatch as her secretary. Lily is some how able to put the idea past her that she is now in servitude to a woman she would have a year before thought of as dingy and below her. The relationship that tethers her and Selden still is becoming more complex. When Selden meets with her to demand she stop work for Mrs. Hatch at once, Lily is put into an indignant mood and becomes very angry with Selden. Despite her current emotion towards him, she still holds some kind of intimate interest in him, "She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, and the way the light fell on his thin dark hair, the way he sat and moved and wore his clothes- she was conscious that even these trivial things were inwoven with the her deepest life" (Wharton 226). I find it ironic that at the beginning of the book, it was Selden who was admiring the details he thought fascinating of Lily, now it is the other way around.
Sunday, July 15, 2012
The House of Mirth, Book 2, Parts 9 and 10
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
With Lily now greatly abased to she finds the strength to swallow her pride, and serve Mrs. Norma Hatch as her secretary. Lily is some how able to put the idea past her that she is now in servitude to a woman she would have a year before thought of as dingy and below her. The relationship that tethers her and Selden still is becoming more complex. When Selden meets with her to demand she stop work for Mrs. Hatch at once, Lily is put into an indignant mood and becomes very angry with Selden. Despite her current emotion towards him, she still holds some kind of intimate interest in him, "She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, and the way the light fell on his thin dark hair, the way he sat and moved and wore his clothes- she was conscious that even these trivial things were inwoven with the her deepest life" (Wharton 226). I find it ironic that at the beginning of the book, it was Selden who was admiring the details he thought fascinating of Lily, now it is the other way around.
With Lily now greatly abased to she finds the strength to swallow her pride, and serve Mrs. Norma Hatch as her secretary. Lily is some how able to put the idea past her that she is now in servitude to a woman she would have a year before thought of as dingy and below her. The relationship that tethers her and Selden still is becoming more complex. When Selden meets with her to demand she stop work for Mrs. Hatch at once, Lily is put into an indignant mood and becomes very angry with Selden. Despite her current emotion towards him, she still holds some kind of intimate interest in him, "She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, and the way the light fell on his thin dark hair, the way he sat and moved and wore his clothes- she was conscious that even these trivial things were inwoven with the her deepest life" (Wharton 226). I find it ironic that at the beginning of the book, it was Selden who was admiring the details he thought fascinating of Lily, now it is the other way around.
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