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Title: AMERICAN REALISM
Review: It's heady stuff, The House of Mirth. The Land of Coca-ColaHas thrown up one contender for the crown just dropped by Zola . . .Miss Lily Bart: she toils not, her head's in such a spin.Nobody understands her: the poor girl's grown quite thin.Gold-digging's just such sordid work, it really wears her down:The furs, the hats, the gloves, the `rocks'---the cost of each new gown!And when the bills start piling up (or so she tells dear Gertie)She may be forced (whisper it not) to get her own hands dirty.She has such dreadful nightmares! Heart of darkness isn't in it:"The dinginess! The dinginess!" (Discords from a spinet . . .)And as for boyfriend Selden, well, he's hardly ever there,Which cuts her up most dreadfully---the thing is, do we care?All Lily's into is DISPLAY: decoratively floral.We know this flippant flirt and jilt will end up glugging chloral.Manipulative, sycophantic, mercenary, vain--Yet she's our tragic HEROINE?! Will someone please EXPLAIN?
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