Her commentary regarding the prevailing behaviours found within this group of people is insightful, satirical, and witty. Wharton demonstrates incredible social nuance in her almost anthropological-like study of New York’s elite society.
“The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.”Īs many readers have already pointed out, there is little mirth to be found in The House of Mirth (and I thought that The Age of Innocence and Summer had despairing endings…what a misguided fool).Īs with the majority of her works, Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth is chiefly concerned with depicting the conflict between social and individual fulfilment, and it focuses on the experiences of American’s upper social class during the turn of the last century.
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