《The House of Mirth》读后感精选

《The House of Mirth》是一本由Edith Wharton著作，20.00元出版的1964-1图书，本书定价：294，页数：，特精心收集的读后感，希望对大家能有帮助。

《The House of Mirth》读后感(一)：the house of mirth的中译版本哪个比较好

我一直很想读一下the house of mirth.但是觉得自己直接看the house of mirth 的原版有些力不从心，于是想先过一下中文版，再看原版会比较好，但听老师说各中译版也有很大差异，好坏参差不齐所以想请教一下诸位，哪个中译版本会比较好，谢谢。

《The House of Mirth》读后感(二)：心比天高，命比纸薄

怎么说呢，小姐的身子丫鬟的命。

看完book 1

如果女主生长在现在，肯定境遇会好很多。就像一个漂亮清脆叫声的小鸟,被寒冷冻死了。令人惋惜。

可能女主唯一可以称为缺点的就是太贪心，想要财富又想要脱离财富的豁达人格。在那个时代两者本身是矛盾的。财富的代表rosedale向她伸出过橄榄枝，但她把rosedale和selden对比，从天性上就厌恶前者的市侩粗俗。但金钱的累积就是通过剥削而来，需要钱去完成自己的审美目标但又不喜欢赚钱的那个人。

selden也是矛盾，明明自己知道和女主有超越世俗的情感共鸣，但社会对女主不公平的言语还是不可避免地影响了女主在他心中的形象。说好的不care相信自己的判断呢？

人都是社会的动物，如果两个人生活在现代，社会不会再对女主有所指责，现在的大风向不是推崇邓文迪这种“我要做什么就一定要不择手段达到目的”的进取型人格吗？（女主不算不择手段，她在大是大非前不会违背自己的良心）。所以sleden方面的疑虑解除。现代社会女性也会受到基本教育，凭女主的天赋（艺术，与人交谈）至少也能找到一个博物馆收藏员的工作，当然想多富贵也不可能，但总算小康且保住了内心的平衡。就看她能不能在金钱和内心之间找到折中点。

《The House of Mirth》读后感(三)：She would rather persist in darkness

20世纪美国文学的最迷人之处在于它呈现出来的精神状态是桎梏了一个世纪以来的the vast majority of people了的，极多理论框架去试图阐释了的，但极少数人ever found a way out了的危机状态。

不过among all these我最relate的一本还是The House of Mirth，并且我认为我周围的女性好友如果看过都也一定会震撼于女性作家（Edith Wharton）对现代性之下女性心理，女性人格，女性挣扎刻画的精准细致到位程度。

反正我是一边读一边不停地在心里喊totally totally I totally get her!

Lily Bart在long for fortune and fame的同时厌恶mediocrity：理智上明确自己要利用美貌与自己的social capital实现阶级跃升，但情感上无法接受主流社交圈的愚昧俗套。Lily的悲剧在于她漂亮聪明有一定的却不多的家庭基础，但精神难自洽；自我意识强大却并不make sense of她自己。

我的朋友们如果能明白我在说什么的话：

我们的宿命就是在最春风得意的时候去了Selden飘满咖啡味的公寓并在那里难以自制地爱上他，于一个满盘皆输的绝望午后被他的sober impartiality击溃，最终在骂声里为了自己的尊严与清白自杀。

《The House of Mirth》读后感(四)：SHE rather persisted in darkness

20世纪美国文学的最迷人之处在于它呈现出来的精神状态是桎梏了一个世纪以来的the vast majority of people了的，极多理论框架去试图阐释了的，但极少数人ever found a way out了的危机状态。

不过among all these我最relate的一本还是The House of Mirth，并且我认为我周围的女性好友如果看过都也一定会震撼于女性作家（Edith Wharton）对现代性之下女性心理，女性人格，女性挣扎刻画的精准细致到位程度。

反正我是一边读一边不停地在心里喊totally totally I totally get her（Lily Bart）

Lily Bart在long for fortune and fame的同时厌恶mediocrity：理智上明确自己要利用美貌与自己的social capital实现阶级跃升，但情感上无法接受主流社交圈的愚昧俗套。Lily的悲剧在于她漂亮聪明有一定的却不多的家庭基础，但精神难自洽；自我意识强大却并不make sense of她自己。

我的朋友们如果能明白我在说什么的话：

我们的宿命就是在最春风得意的时候去了Selden飘满咖啡味的公寓并在那里难以自制地爱上他，于一个满盘皆输的绝望午后被他的sober impartiality击溃，最终在骂声里为了自己的尊严与清白结束人生。

《The House of Mirth》读后感(五)：House of Mirth is in Want of Love

Lily Bart, a beautiful and unmarried woman, 29-year-old, living in the leisure-class of New York, is eager to marry. Unfortunately, she misses several chances of attaining her goal, some of which have been broken by her own faults, others by other people’s malice. She lives in a society where, euphemistically speaking, love is rare. And this rarity of deep bonds between human beings in the community is what I want to emphasise here.

Lily Bart grew up in a not unwealthy family. Her mother was excellent at house-keeping and managed things skilfully as if the family was leading a more luxurious life than was it in reality. Lily’s mother lived on money. Her mother mentioned her father only when he neglected to forward remittances. After her father’s death, with little money left, her mother gave all up. It was as if “her faculty for ‘managing’ deserted her(P.30)”. In the book, her mother never showed the least love to or kindly and motherly feelings towards Lily. At the end of her wandering life, she only paid attention to Lily’s beauty, yet thought it was “her own property” and “some weapon she had slowly fashioned to vengeance(P.30)”. It’s safe to say that Lily’s mother, Mrs Bart, never really loved her daughter.

In Lily’s impression, her mother always looked a lot younger than her father, who is actually only two years older. This discrepancy may be caused less by her mother’s beauty than by her father’s worries or harried state of mind. Her father scarcely appeared in Lily’s memory of family life. But when he appeared, he was always reticent and languish. As the bread and winner of a family always “in need of more money(P.26)”, Mr Bart was too busy in the “down town(P.26)”, in other words, trying to make ends meet, to care for Lily. Never once was his fatherly attention to Lily mentioned in the book. Nor did he ever show any positive personal feelings to Lily, Mrs Bart or this family. When Lily made a request of buying roses daily, he laughed and sort of ridiculed Lily’s ignorance of the current financial state of this family. On receiving the reproach from his wife, his response was always “cabling to Paris for an extra dress or two, and telephoning to the jeweller(P.27)” When he joined the family vacation in the summer, he was unheeded and mute. Even though the book mentions that he read poetries, he never exhibited any poetic sensibilities, at least not in Lily’s memory of him. To Lily, his father is distant like a moon that travels around the family planet regularly but without any contact.

After Mrs Bart’s death, Lily was left alone and adopted by Mrs Peniston, her father’s widowed sister. Mrs Peniston didn’t accept Lily out of maternal care or sympathy but of “a moral mauvaise bonte that makes the public display of selfishness impossible(P.32)”. Apparently, Mrs Peniston picked up Lily not out of love. Many actions of Mrs Peniston can testify to this statement. She didn’t give allowances to Lily regularly but accidentally so as to keep reminding Lily of a feeling of dependence. She didn’t help Lily find mates or create situations that serve the similar purpose, which partly contributes to Lily’s unmarried state at age of 29. She didn’t help Lily out when Lily entreated aid. What’s worse, she showed a kind of nonchalance concerning Lily’s short of money. And the worst is that she disinherited Lily, making Lily a total wanderer.

Gus Trenor seems like a person who cares for Lily. But that care is considered by him a business transaction. He gives Lily money to show his care but demands Lily’s attention and confidence in return. George Dorset is willing to divorce and marry Lily as long as Lily consents. But his weakness and helplessness confirms his lack of deep attachment to Lily. He is only a miserable married man trying to use Lily as an expediency to disengage himself from Bertha. Rosedale’s case is a little more complicated. His first intention to marry Lily was instigated merely by his urgent need to find someone who can help him step up into the social circle that keeps him out persistently. However, after Lily was disinherited and isolated, he was, nevertheless, concerned with Lily and willing to back her up. But he would only marry Lily under the condition that she utilise Bertha’s letters to regain social status. Upon Lily’s demur, Rosedale left. These well-to-do New York gentlemen never really acted lovely and purely.

Bertha Dorset is a selfish and malicious woman. She was romantically involved with Selden Lawrence. When Lily inadvertently drew Selden away, Bertha avenged Lily through poisoning Percy Gryce and so broke Lily’s chance of marrying him. Bertha invited Lily on board Sabrina for the purpose of diverting her husband, George Dorset. When Bertha found out that her adultery with Ned Silverton was noticed, she immediately turn this back on Lily and falsely accused Lily of seducing George. When Lily was marginalised by her original friends and just got familiar with the Gormers, Bertha paid the Gormers a visit and poisoned the Gromers just as what she did to Percy Gryce. It’s no wonder that some readers come to a conclusion that Lily’s biggest enemy is women, and, in this case, Bertha Dorset.

Judy Trenor tried to arrange for Lily a meeting to get Percy Gryce and showed her discontent after Lily’s failure. It’s no doubt that she is concerned with Lily’s future. But this concern only comes from her aptness of being a good hostess. Even though Lily considered Judy as “the woman who was least likely to ‘go back’ on her(P.36)”, Judy went back on her anyway, after knowing Lily’s deal with Gus. When they met in the restaurant(P.199), Judy’s “loudly affirmed pleasure at seeing Miss Bart took the form of a nebulous generalisation, which included neither enquiries as to her future nor the expression of a definite wish to see her again.(P.200)” Then she left without a trace.

The House of Mirth is clearly lack of love. But it is not completely without love. Gerty Farish offers her help to Lily just like what she’s accustomed to do, altruistically. Though Gerty was a bit jealous of Lily, she accepted Lily’s request of staying with her the night when Lily’s extremely dejected after her encounter with Gus Trenor. At the moment of being asked by Lily whether Selden would save her, Gerty chose to trust Selden to the height of her own passion, to hold on to her love to Selden. When Lily came back from Europe and was disinherited, Gerty was firmly standing on Lily’s side, regardless of rumours about Lily spread by Bertha. Carry Fisher also gave counsels and set opportunities for Lily when Lily’s been going south. Though hardly could these amount to acts of love, they are benign options.

The person we are bound to pay attention to is Lawrence Selden. He had many encounters with Lily Bart, some of which are pretty romantic. He invited Lily to his apartment in Benedict, and had an intimate talk with her. He appeared in Bellomont unexpectedly for Lily, just like what he said to Lily: ”My only engagement at Bellomont was with you.” After the performance of tableau, they had their first kiss. Unfortunately, their following encounters were all rigid and sad. Not until the time when Lily last went to Selden’s apartment did she express herself directly, explosively and emotionally. Lily’s love for Selden is like a small piece of gold that is hidden inside a muddy substance, the material world. When opportunity comes, her golden side appears and is always attracted to Selden. But most of the time, it’s merged and concealed unconsciously. Lily didn’t fully notice it until she decided to destroy the letters between Selden and Bertha. The golden part of herself is a uplifting force that gives her superiority to the mob. But it is also a destructive force when it comes to her worldly aspiration. She could’ve married Percy Gryce, had she not felt the stir of her inner feeling to walk with Selden. She could’ve married Rosedale, had she cared only about money and worldly status. She could’ve used the letters to regain her position. She could’ve just married George to revenge Bertha. There were so many possibilities through which she could achieve a material success and be independent but which she consciously or unconsciously spurned.

Born and raised in the leisure-class, Lily is not without any concern about money. Actually she craves for money. But she also wants to be above and beyond. “She would not indeed have cared to marry a man who was merely rich: she was secretly ashamed of her mother’s crude passion for money.(P.31)” Being without any strong financial support, as Bertha and Judy have their husband’s bank account, Lily could only rely on herself. She is constantly in the struggle between money and love. This might strike some as strange, since there are always people with both money and love. But the reality of Lily’s living environment is that this species is rare and, in the book, nonexistent. Selden has love for Lily but he is not rich enough. Percy has money but he is too ignorant and boring. Gus Trenor and George Dorset has money but they are both not suitable for marriage and have too much trouble of their own to love Lily. Rosedale has both money and love for Lily, but he considers money and social status more important and love to him is more businesslike. In other words, his love for Lily is, first a love for buying a luxury and then a love for buying a subtly.

When finally Lily chose love, she destroyed the letters in Selden’s apartment and put all the money left by Mrs. Peniston to pay her debts. But she’s only too pessimistic to assume that Selden’s love for her disappeared. Just as she consciously and unconsciously spoiled many opportunities to get married, so did she consciously and unconsciously commit suicide and end the love. She had a word to say to Selden but didn’t say it. When Selden came to her to say the same word, she couldn’t hear.

“In what aspect could a society of irresponsible pleasure-seekers be said to have, on the ‘old woe of the world’, any deeper bearing than the people composing such a society could guess. The answer was that a frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys. Its tragic implication lies in its power of debasing people and ideals. The answer in short was my heroine, Lily Bart. ” Wharton, the author of the book, thus wrote in her autobiography A Backward Glance. Lily Bart is sacrificed to manifest the dramatic significance. She has ideals that desire more than money. She wants to go into “Republic of the Spirit(P.60)”. She engenders love for Selden. In other words, She has something and wants something that the frivolous society doesn’t have and doesn’t want her to have. She could survive either by getting herself out of this part of society or by death. Since she tried the first and failed, she could only choose the second. Indeed, part of her is a piece of gold. But we shouldn’t forget the mud that surrounds the gold also moulds and merges into her. She is to be pure gold only through self-destruction. The house of mirth is filled to brim with mud, is in want of gold and thus in want of love.