SOURCE: Barnett, Louise K. “Language, Gender, and Society in The House of Mirth.” Connecticut Review 11, no. 2 (summer 1989): 54-63.
In the following essay, Barnett posits that in The House of Mirth society functions as a character rather than simply a setting against which the story is told.
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