Angel In The House Archetypes

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Ammons argues that Lily is the “New Woman”, a new wave of female literary characters that do not fit within the already established archetypes: The Angel in the House and the Fallen Woman. The Angel in the House, according to Virginia Woolf, “...was intensely sympathetic. She was immensely charming. She was utterly unselfish...She sacrificed herself daily...in short she was constituted that she never had a mind or a wish of her own, but preferred to sympathise always with the minds and wishes of others. Above all...she was pure” (Woolf 2273). The Fallen Woman, is just that, the woman who had fallen from grace of society after losing her innocent. With these two polar opposites being the only options for female characters, Lily Bart fills neither. At one point or another in the text she falls on either spectrum, but she never remains on either. She is a hybrid of both. She radiates “charm” and “sex appeal” but also understands that within the limitations of her sex within the upper class (349). “Lily is excellent at her job. Not only has she mastered the …show more content…
In the context of when this was written, she only had three means of accomplishing her goal of financial freedom--marriage, physical labor, or inheritance. By the time we get to the main scene I will focus on in this paper, she has exhausted most of these options. Lily tried to manipulate the “exchange system”, as Dimock likes to define the unspoken market and rules in which everyone must comply within in order to gain currency or favors. “The exchange system can easily accommodate rebellion like Lily’s… [yet] Lily’s action hurts no one but herself” (Dimock 787-788). In Lily’s efforts to try and change the game, to further dismantle her gender role, she did not take into account that the game could merely

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