"What is the truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that's easiest to believe. In this case it's a great deal easier to believe Bertha Dorset's story than mine, because she has a big house and an opera box, and it's convenient to be on good terms with her" (237).
Lily Bart announces a common reality here. Sometimes, people believe what they want to believe, regardless of whether or not it is true. In Lily's materialistic society, money is synonymous with truth. Bertha can buy her own reality, and Lily must suffer the consequences.
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"Bertha can buy her own reality, and Lily must suffer the consequences."
What a great line!! I think this is one of the things that makes me most furious in this story! That, and the fact that unmarried men can have affairs with married women and neither are ruined, but unmarried women can be ruined by mere innuendo...
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