In chapter three Wharton describes and shows the reader the setting in which Miss Bart most wishes to live in. Wharton also shows how easily this could be attained if lily uses all of her faculties. Miss Bart is close to achieving goals but has had a hard time of it and continually loses ground because of silly unforeseen mistakes and set backs. This chapter shows even further her differences towards Percy. Later in the chapter Lily reflects on her past most specifically how she was razed to live in this world. This also shows were she got her disgust for dullness. This is shown using the cliché of “live like a pig” (Wharton 23). These things give and image of and setting of how she was razed. Miss Bart’s distance from her goals is showed by her dependence on others. This most expressed in her having to help Mrs. Trenor’s with writing letter when her secretary was gone.
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