The House of Mirth: Book 2 XIII-XIV

In the final chapters of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, Lily pays off all her debts.  She then takes an overdose of her sleeping medicine.  Wharton does not let on whether she knew she was overdosing or not.  Seldon realizes the gravity of his love for her when he goes to her apartment and she is dead. 

"It was this moment of love, this fleeting victory over themselves, which had kept them from atrophy and extinction; which, in her, had reached out to him in every struggle against the influence of her surroundings, and in him, had kept alive the faith that now drew him penitent and reconciled to her side," (Wharton, 268).

Wharton only ended the book because she got tired of writing.  She should have stopped after chapter 12 that way the reader may have had a little hope that Lily would grow up and marry Seldon.  There was absolutely no point to the novel.  The only point was to try to get society to think about true happiness and be thankful of our freedoms.  But Wharton didn't even mean it for the latter because women didn't have that many freedoms.  Wharton told a sad tale about a woman who couldn't realize how in love she was and how great her life could be if she stopped being so pety.  ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!! AHHHHHHHH!!!!! kerjgtertgigjrhherewrkigtuqwkjhwtr8325ewrgfhdbpoirthi094thererh iuergtuonbv  erkueruherkjghlki3i2893595u6lhtgiouvu kifghkjrghoiuey0p893tyhsngkl!!!!!!!!! That's how I feel!!! And that's all I have to say about that. Boom! Reference to Forest Gump! Power Verb!