Wisdom Has Built Her House
Lily Bart’s fall from status is bare, pitiless, and relentlessly humiliating: she stumbles from step to ugly lower step until things the reader thought unconscionable on page one seem like Divine Intervention by page fifty.
In short, it is excruciating. Which is exactly the point.
Explore with us what Edith Wharton's Gilded Age tragedy has to do with Wisdom, Authenticity, & ultimately the Life of Grace.
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