Wharton Wednesday: Book 1, Ch 14 & 15

Week 6: The End of Book 1

Welcome to Week 6

We did it! We’ve made it to the halfway point in the novel and I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on Book 1, as well as your predictions for Book 2…

Remember: if you have something you’d like me to cover next week, tell me about it here or leave a comment on today’s post.

Today, we’re working through Chapters 14 and 15 of The House of Mirth.

• Get full read-a-long details here.

• View all previous chapter summaries and the reading schedule.

• For next week, start Book 2. Read chapters 1-3.

What happens in chapters 14 and 15

Here is our usual plot summary of what happens in each chapter. The characters we meet this week are in bold.

In Chapter 14:

• Gerty Farish has Selden over for dinner, thinking he might be there to woo her

• Selden won’t stop talking about Lily, so Gerty gets super jealous

• This is the same night Lily is trapped by Trenor — the foreshadowing is so heavy

• Selden hurries to Carrie Fisher’s house to catch Lily by surprise

• She’s not there…

• He goes for a walk…

• He’s one of the …