Edith Wharton in the Age of Trump?✍😇

I hadn't read any of Edith Wharton's novels or even watched the 1993 movie of Martin Scorsese's until late in 2024.

I didn't even know who Edith Wharton was until last year when I read (or rather listened to) 2 of the 3 books of Wharton's mentioned in '1001 Books You Must read Before You Die'.

I will get around to reading 'Ethan Frome', if I live long enough that is:-)

And maybe even watching the movie if I can find it?

Edith was certainly an interesting person from what I've heard on various podcasts, and I wonder what she would have thought about the Trump family of New York in 2024 and Trump becoming POTUS again?

Edith Wharton: Novelist and Designer

"Edith Newbold Wharton (née Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996."

The Age of Innocence:
Inside Edith Wharton's Classic Novel

Author Naomi Wolf chooses
novelist Edith Wharton

Reading a summary of chapter 25 of 'The Age of Innocence' today, knowing who the POTUS is going to be in 2025 (if he doesn't die beforehand) seems rather amusing to me:-)

"Archer gazes at a wall calendar with a portrait of the President on it. It seems unimaginable that such a conversation as this is going on under his rule. He asks how Ellen has changed. M. Rivière says he discovered that she’s an American, and things that are acceptable in other societies are not acceptable to Americans."

I wonder what Ellen would think, too?

Be Kind ... and Go F#ck Yourself?💪🌈😂

Gillian Anderson

I know what Gillian Anderson (who played Lily Bart in the 2000 movie 'House of Mirth') thinks about Trump:-)

But Gillian did play Marget Thatcher in 'The Crown':-)

The Crown, The X-Files and The Secret Sun of Synchromysticism?

Martin Scorsese's 1993 movie of Edith Wharton's novel was probably one of his best movies, I think.

I wonder what Chris Knowles thinks about that?-)

His readers know what he thinks about Gillian and Jodie;-)

TAXI for Mr. Knowles?!🚕😵🚖🕳🐇