American Literature / Unit 11 AML 1041 short lesson, about 20 seconds
*The House of Mirth* and *Ethan Frome*
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The idea
The House of Mirth follows Lily Bart, beautiful and unmarried, as small social errors and debts push her out of the society she was raised to marry into. Ethan Frome moves to a poor New England farm and tells of a failed escape that leaves three people trapped together for life.
In practice
Small errors; a sledge.
Where people slip
Both books are machines of entrapment.
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