SOURCE: Sapora, Carol Baker. “Female Doubling: The Other Lily Bart in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth.” Papers on Language and Literature 29, no. 4 (fall 1993): 371-94.
In the following essay, Sapora examines the conflict in The House of Mirth between the image of women as works of art or decorative objects and women's attempts at self-actualization.
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