![]() ![]() ![]() A victim of a decadent and ultimately disastrous upbringing, she feels both compelled and repulsed by the social world in which she moves. Her tastes range from the fancy to the opulent and she acts mostly in order to gratify “her sense of beauty and her craving for the external finish of life” (8). I must have a great deal of money” (24)īut why must Lily have a great deal of money? Quite simply because she has been inculcated to the extravagance of the well-to-do. As she herself confesses, “I am horribly poor – and very expensive. She is growing older, her marriage more imperative. Determined to make a monetarily felicitous “match,” Lily has spent the past ten years navigating her way through high society’s marriage market. At the center of this world is Lily Bart, a beautiful but impoverished young woman, living off a stipend from her rich Aunt Peniston and the good humor of her wealthy friends. ![]()
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