Lily Bart: A Surfacing Inner Voice

Authors

L. Christine White, University of Northern Iowa

Document Type

Part I

Abstract

In Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth (1905), Lily Bart undergoes two conflicts: first, between freedom of personal expression and social role-playing, and, second, between personal and social moral codes. These conflicts, which interfere with Lily's attempted psychological and moral growth, are manifested in her struggle between private and public "voice," a term Mary F. Belenky and co-authors describe as being "a metaphor that can apply to many aspects of women's experience and development" (18). In order to analyze the effects of these conflicts on Lily's psychological and moral growth, one must first examine the makeup of her private and public voices.

Publication Date

1991

Journal Title

Draftings In

Volume

6

Issue

3

First Page

13

Last Page

17

Comments

No cover/title page date shown on piece.

Copyright

©1991 by the Board of Student Publications, University of Northern Iowa

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

White, L. Christine (1991) "Lily Bart: A Surfacing Inner Voice," Draftings In: Vol. 6: No. 3, Article 6.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/draftings/vol6/iss3/6