freedom and confinement

Question 1

lily as a flower quote

Answer 1

“She was like some rare flower grown for exhibition, a flower from which every bud had been nipped except the crowning blossom of her beauty.” 2.13

Question 2

cultivation crit

Answer 2

Suzan Mizruchi “plight of leisure-class women … who are taught ot cultivate their irrelevance” 1.14

Question 3

evolution wealth quote

Answer 3

But, after all, it was the life she had been made for: every dawning tendency in her had been carefully directed toward it, 2.13

Question 4

environmentalism crit

Answer 4

Marilyn Macentrye “an abiding interest in how environment shapes character”

Question 5

stream quote

Answer 5

1.2 Rosedale falls below the “stream” with “long submergences”

Question 6

environmentalism quote

Answer 6

“He was, as much as Lily, the victim of his environment”

Question 7

bertha

Answer 7

.2, twice referred to as a “creature” “But compassion, in a moment, got the better of her instinctive recoil.”

Question 8

lily predator

Answer 8

“tranquilly studying her prey through downcast lashes while she organized a method of attack” 1.2

Question 9

ancestry

Answer 9

I won’t blame anybody for my faults: I’ll say it was in my blood, that I got it from some wicked pleasure-loving ancestress, who reacted against the homely virtues of New Amsterdam, and wanted to be back at the court of the Charleses!” 2.4

Question 10

nettie crit

Answer 10

Suzan Mizruchi “a gentle working-class mother whose interests are aligned with that of a genuine elite” “emobodiment of a private ideal- Wharton’s ideal” “from” the working class but not “of it”

Question 11

nettie lily

Answer 11

“destined to be swept prematurely into that social refuse-heap of which Lily had so lately expressed her dread.” 2.13

Question 12

nettie fate

Answer 12

whatever fate the future reserved for her, she would not be cast into the refuse-heap without a struggle.” 2.13

Question 13

lower class ideals

Answer 13

“extraordinarily small and almost miraculously clean.” and I knew he knew about me 2.13

Question 14

nettie life

Answer 14

2.13 the frail audacious permanence of a bird’s nest built on the edge of a cliff

Question 15

selden crit

Answer 15

Selden is “antithetical to the traditional male hero of romance” Joseph Coloumbe

Question 16

selden frog

Answer 16

“amphibious” 1.6

Question 17

ros

Answer 17

1.6 “To keep a kind of republic of the spirit—that’s what I call success.”

Question 18

peniston house

Answer 18

1.9 “as dreary as a tomb” “she felt as though she were buried alive in the stifling limits of Mrs. Peniston’s existence.”

Question 19

natural setting

Answer 19

the garden 1.12 the mountain 1.6

Question 20

jew crit

Answer 20

“whiteness as universal ideal humanness.” Ammons

Question 21

green

Answer 21

McEntrye “refuge”

Question 22

gus scene

Answer 22

2.13

Question 23

boat cast off scene

Answer 23

2.3

Question 24

gormers

Answer 24

2.5

Question 25

changes of location

Answer 25

2.15 goes to Mediterranean with Dorsets when Selden doesn’t arrive 2.5 goes to Alaska with the gormers after will reading