Joviality implies a more mellow merriment generated by people who are hearty, generous, benevolent, and high-spirited: the joviality of warm-hearted friends. anger, sometimes with mirth, sometimes with deje8ion, or with vanity. Jollity implies an atmosphere of easy and convivial gaiety, a more hearty merriment or a less boisterous hilarity: The holiday was a time of jollity. ous consequences, which G A LE N tells us are. Mirth suggests spontaneous amusement or gaiety, manifested briefly in laughter: uncontrolled outbursts of mirth. The social setting of the novel is the leisure class, more specically the leisure class women, and none of the women of this class earns her living by productive work. Jollity and joviality may refer either to a general atmosphere of mirthful festivity or to the corresponding traits of individuals. Mirth, glee, hilarity, merriment, jollity, joviality refer to the gaiety characterizing people who are enjoying the companionship of others. The relevance of Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class for The House of Mirth is obvious. Merriment suggests fun, good spirits, and good nature rather than the kind of wit and sometimes artificial funmaking that cause hilarity: The house resounded with music and sounds of merriment. Hilarity implies noisy and boisterous mirth, often exceeding the limits of reason or propriety: hilarity aroused by practical jokes. Glee suggests an effervescence of high spirits or exultation, often manifested in playful or ecstatic gestures it may apply also to a malicious rejoicing over mishaps to others: glee over the failure of a rival.

Ho da sempre problemi con il mio vero cognome ( Ganzarolli ), le persone non lo capiscono, lo scrivono sbagliato e non sanno mai quante 'l' mettere. Forse pi lunga e travagliata della scelta del titolo di Possessum. Mirth, glee, hilarity, merriment, jollity, joviality refer to the gaiety characterizing people who are enjoying the companionship of others. Mirth ' La scelta e la nascita dello pseudonimo stata letteralmente un parto. Subject headings Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904. In the afternoon rush of the Grand Central Station his eyes had been refreshed by the sight of Miss Lily Bart. Kate Chopin's rebel with a cause : Edna Pontellier in The awakeningĪt ease at the gate : Sylvia Plath's The bell jar The House of Mirth situates its heroine within this field of combat, recording the extent to which her consciousness both reflects and struggles against dominant discourses of privacy and subjectivity. Introduction: the paradigm of women's suicide The art of dying : suicide in the works of Kate Chopin and Sylvia Plath / Deborah S.

Possessum by Silvia A.G. Mirth