Thoughts

     Now comes the part where I state my opinion of The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton.  Overall, it was a good novel.  Edith Wharton is a great author, and I definitely saw that in this book.  However,  I did get confused throughout the book.  There were many words that I did not know and had to look up. Not saying that that is a bad thing, but it did make my reading a little more harder.  Also, there were parts that just made me want to stop reading.  I felt as if I wasn't as into the book when there wasn't much dialogue going on.   I look forward to discussing this novel during class, so I can better understand it.  Also, at the end of the novel Wharton states that "in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear" (Wharton, 268).  I think that that word is love, but I am not entirely positive.  I feel like she should have said what the word was just so I had confirmation.  I would not necessarily recommend this novel to someone, but if someone asked me whether it was a good book or not, I would tell them that it was.  It just is not my type of novel that I like to read.