Still Guessing (Pages 147-168)

Book 2 of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth already is full of so much drama. We come into scene again starting with Selden which also confuses me. Why does Wharton start each book from Selden's point of view and then continue to switch to the viewpoint being majorly by Miss Bart instead of Selden? I hope that this means that eventually they will get together. I am not sure how those coincide at all but I hope that is what it means. Some of the history we learn about Miss Bart falling into an engagement the first time she came to Europe kind of blew my mind since I just cannot come to believe that she actually said yes to a marriage proposal. She comes off to me as a person that will not even marry because of her continual folly. She ruined the engagement because she was flirting with another man. How interesting, it seems that Miss Bart ruins the majority of her chances of finally getting with a man for marriage because of her flirtatious ways towards men. "Now he suddenly felt the latent ache, and realized that after all he had not come off unhurt"(Page 150), made me realize that maybe Selden wants to be done with the relationship, but it also sparked a home that maybe his pain would lead to a healing of the relationship with Miss Bart