Relva Caroline de Sousa Silva
Professor Almeida
Literature and Film
November 2007
Money and Glory in Lily's life
"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth"
Ecclesiastes 7:4
In this paper will be analyzed some issues present in the novel The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton, and in the film by the same title, directed by Terence Davies. What I propose is the analysis of what was the cause of Lily's ruin and how the desire of being rich and usufruct the glory of money disordered her life. I intend to show how this is presented in the novel as well as in the film.
The adaptation of the novel can be classified, according to Wagner, as Transposition in which a novel is "directly given on screen" (222). In this way, there are many arguments that support this classification. The narrative is the same in both medias, focusing on Lily Bart's life the third person and omniscient narrator tells us the story that is told by the......

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Title: Money And Glory In Lily´s Life
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