Blog 13- Detailed response to a specific scene and my opinion

In The House Of Mirth by Edith Wharton, Miss Lily Bart makes the unwise decision to overdose on chloral, thus, ending her life. I noticed prior some signs of her downward spiral. Though, Lily's death doesn't take place until the final pages of the book, earlier her lonliness and worrries consumed her every thought. "...she discovered and increasing sense of lonliness, " (Wharton,238).. Miss Lily Bart's lonliness is a reoccuring pattern which, to her, only chloral can subdue. "The thought of the chloral was the only spot of light in the dark prospect: she could feel its lulling influence stealing over her already," (Wharton,253). This feeling of Miss Bart's foreshadows the medication permanetly stealing over her, which is her death. Lily Bart always came across to me as a weak character but her death, brought on by herself, was unexpected even given the possible signs of suicidal thinking. Although, Lily never thought the increased dosage would hurt her, I believe the taking of her life to be unevitable. Lily seemed to be heading towards the direction of dreading her existence.