Burn Baby Burn (Pages 241-252)

Miss Bart in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth seems to be a character that goes the full circle. She begins as this stuck-up high class woman looking for a man with money to marry and turns into a humble girl that realizes the wrong that she has done and desires to make up for it. Or at least these are the changes she has progressed to so far into the book. She recently dropped the packet of letters into the fire and I am sorely disappointed. I wanted an extreme ending hopefully with deaths and ridiculous declarations of love and spread out with some murder involved. Instead, I am imagining a goody girly ending where Selden ends up with Gerty and Lily ends up without any debt as Rosedale's wife. Please God do not let Selden end up with Gerty. I think because I am not a girl that I have become more drawn to Selden as a person and do not really care for Miss Bart as much. I cannot respect her because of the awful things that she has done and the one's that bother me the most she did to Selden! "I'd put you where you could wipe your feet on em'"(Page 244) greatly bothered me because I finally thought that Lily had humiliated herself enough to realize that she doesn't need to be at this great height of popularity to actually have what she needs.