Sharayah CallaisMs. SaxonEng. 233-ND14/01/14Social Senselessness and Belief in the House of MirthThe journey in search of senselessness and social belief in the novel, The House of Mirth can fittingly begin with a look at the society in which Lily Bart plans acceptance and social realization. The way you perceive the social circle in The House of Mirth is that it is full of elegance and comfort, but has fallen into an unpleasant, manipulative, and disgusting type of Grundyism. If you have money then you are part of the privileged group, but privilege in this story is interpreted too meanly and is wasted in a waste of one's inner self and is in my opinion a waste of shame. Wharton's chic arrangement and the story's wealthy collaborators are intriguingly rote and dark, and those who wish to enter the enchanted social circle hope to be assimilated into a grand but inexpensive culture. The few old families who have not been dragged into luxurious nonsense and deficiencies free themselves from narrow thoughts and strained morals. Wharton shows his world in all its pessimistic indifference to contemplation and romance. It illustrates Lily's thriving hope dashed and Selden's life in the “republic of the spirit” summed up in a sterile pose. The shrewd Bertha Dorset clings to her wealth and intimidated husband, while the Brys and Rosedales are ready to force their newly earned millions to uphold an agreement that has maliciously wronged them. A certain decency and the independence to obtain it are goods too fragile to bear such a refined social status; indeed, if one ignores the last critical chapter of The House of Mirth, one can say that Wharton… middle of paper… induces suspicion. When he finds that faith has returned to him, however, he sees that “although all the conditions of life had conspired to keep them apart,” he can be happy that he came to her “willing to stake his future on his faith in her. ” The house of mirth, should come with the warning that it does not end with an overly romantic and sappy touch, Lily's hunt for limited knowledge in the word is erected in the organization of the novel. All his regrets lead, however painful, to explain his mysterious contradiction, his repugnance and his tormented indecision. It takes her an entire hesitant life to progress and acquire a conviction that suspends the omnipresent and deafening illogicality of her state, and that of humanity. But in the end he ends up with the quiaabsurdum belief that, for Wharton, motivates all the final results.