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I don't think I've mentioned before that Lily Bart is one of my favorite heroines ever. She makes me want to shake her until her teeth rattle . . . and yet I love her so. I can't help it. She makes stupid mistakes, and yet through all of it, through the sheer brutality of her life, she has such a purity of heart. She loves luxury and ease and beautiful surroundings -- loves them too much, in fact -- but she can't make herself do wrong things, or even expedient things, to get them, and so life beats her down. A really clever woman could perhaps find a way to get those things by honorable means, but she can't even do that. She breaks my heart, but I feel like I understand her, and I love her.
The way that Lawrence yells, "Oh, LILY!" in that half-horrified, half-exasperated way at the end of the film always makes me want to laugh and cry at the same time. In any other film, with any other characters, it would be way over the top, but right there it's so fitting. It's just so . . . Lily.
ever_maedhros has made a gorgeous batch of House of Mirth icons. Go check 'em out!I don't think I've mentioned before that Lily Bart is one of my favorite heroines ever. She makes me want to shake her until her teeth rattle . . . and yet I love her so. I can't help it. She makes stupid mistakes, and yet through all of it, through the sheer brutality of her life, she has such a purity of heart. She loves luxury and ease and beautiful surroundings -- loves them too much, in fact -- but she can't make herself do wrong things, or even expedient things, to get them, and so life beats her down. A really clever woman could perhaps find a way to get those things by honorable means, but she can't even do that. She breaks my heart, but I feel like I understand her, and I love her.
The way that Lawrence yells, "Oh, LILY!" in that half-horrified, half-exasperated way at the end of the film always makes me want to laugh and cry at the same time. In any other film, with any other characters, it would be way over the top, but right there it's so fitting. It's just so . . . Lily.
