HoM MONEY Flashcards
Rosedale outcast by society
“long submergences” in “the stream”
Lily response to Rosedale
“intuitive repugnance, getting the better of years of social discipline”
scenery at Bellomont
“moments when such scenes delighted Lily, when they gratified her sense of external beauty and her craving for the external finish of life” other times give a “sharper edge to the meagerness of her own opportunities”
Lily maid
“sometimes it struck her that her and her maid were in the same position, only that the latter recieved her wages more regularly”
mother dinginess
“her last adjuration to her daughter was to escape from the dinginess if she could” “Don’t let it creep up on you and drag you down.”
Lily’s beauty transaction
“contemplation of Lily’s beauty” by her mother as “the last asset in their fortunes”
self display transaction
the combination of a handsome girl and a romantic scene struck her as too good to be wasted.
Rosedale jewish
Rosedale, with that mixture of artistic sensibility and business astuteness which characterizes his race,
marriage
and you know I am horribly poor—and very expensive. I must have a great deal of money.”
money class mother
she was secretly ashamed of her mother’s crude passion for money. Lily’s preference would have been for an English nobleman
republic of the spirit
[freedom] from money, from poverty