Part one of term paper
Lily Bart, the central character in Edith Wharton’s novel, The House of Mirth , was born into the fringes of high society in late nineteenth century New York. She developed a, “lively taste for splendour”(page 30) and a fear of, ”dinginess”.(page 35). Everything within this social circle is measured in monetary ...

Part two of term paper
... in the pursuit of an object or in gratification of a person”. Commodifiaction is defined as “the action of turning something into, or treating something as a commodity” and commodity is defined as, “an article of raw material that can be brought and sold”. It was Mrs Bart who had raised Lily to value the finer things in life and fear the “dinginess”(page 35) that she associated with those who did not have money, or those who did not choose to spend their ...