Lily and Wealth

"...she works like a slave preparing the ground and sowing her seeds, but the day she ought to be reaping the harvest, she oversleeps or goes off on a picnic" (198). This quote references to how Lily seems to avoid completing her quest in courting a wealthy hucband. Maybe she knows deep down in side that this is not what she really wants. She denies Rosedale and she doesn't finish the job on Percy Gryce. She also tries to support herself through hat weaving. Although at the end of the story she considers marrying Rosedale, she never goes through with it just like the other times she has thought of marrying and kills herself instead. Lily seems to have wanted more in life than to just play the submissive role of a wealthy house wife. She seems to have wanted something more than the superficial wealth that she would get by marrying the rich men. Lilly wanted to accomplish something herself. "... it soon became clear to Lily that she was to enjoy only the material advantages of good food and expensive clothing; and though far from underrating these, she would gladly exchange them for what Mrs. Bart had taught her to regard as oppurtunities" (38). An oppurtunity is a vague word, but she clearly wants something above all the money, fancy homes and prestige of being wealthy; she wants something more out of life.