Rejection

     While I continue to read The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton starts to describe the consequences that Lily is starting to face.  First, Bertha tells her not to return to the yacht, then when returning home, Lily's aunt pretty much kicks her out of the family, and finally Lily realizes that she only has one true friend, Gerty.  This begins a pattern of exclusion in Lily's life.   Lily realizes that "for the first time in her life she found herself utterly alone except for Gerty Farish" (Wharton, 183).  Wharton starts to portray to the reader what Lily has to face because of her past choices.  She begins to lose everything that she once had.  People begin to reject her, and it is hard for her to process.  Lily is not use to people that she once thought were her friends talking behind her back, she is not use to her family looking down upon her, and she is not use to being poor.  Lily is facing a hard time in her life, and it is hard for her to adjust to.  She has many problems to fix upon returning to America.  The hardest part is happening to her right now, but I believe that she will be able to push through it all.