
Wharton creates a portrait of a stunning beauty who, though raised and educated to marry well both socially and economically, is reaching her 29th year, an age when her youthful blush is drawing to a close and her marital prospects are becoming ever more limited. The House of Mirth traces Lily's slow two-year social descent from privilege to a tragically lonely existence on the margins of society.

as Lily Bart

as Lawrence Selden

as Bertha Trenor-Dorset

as Augustus Trenor-Dorset

as Gertie Farish

as Simon Rosedale

as Mrs. Haffen

as Nettie Struthers

as Mrs. Penniston

as Ned Silverton

as Percy Gryce

as Jeff Wade

as Butler