I'll Keep You My Dirty Little Secret

     As I begin book two of The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton I am shocked by how unfaithful people are.  Whether they are actual affairs or rumored ones, it seems that people just cannot trust one another.  Mrs. Dorset and Ned Silverton are having an affair, and people start saying that Lily and Mr. Dorset are having an affair as well. Lily and Mr. Dorset had to return to their place alone because Mrs. Dorset, "she didn't turn up at all" (Wharton, 161).  Instead, she was sneaking around with Silverton during that time. I am so surprised by how people cannot stay in a relationship in this novel.  It seems like the men fancy almost every woman even if they are married. Wharton does a great job by showing the unfaithfulness of people during that time.  I am just wondering if people were really like that back then? It just seems crazy to me. This part in the novel reminds me of the song Dirty Little Secret by The All-American Rejects.  Mrs. Dorset is keeping Silverton her "dirty little secret"!