Monday, September 29, 2008

Vanity Fair

"Oliver St. Ives, who came out spectacularly in Vanity Fair," (Cunningham 93).

Vanity Fair is a magazine that features fashion, the lives of celebrities, and other such frivolities.  It is mentioned to bring to mind again living gaily and without care; being in love with trivial pursuits which can make one happy, as both Clarissa's are.  Vanity Fair is also a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, about girls climbing the ladder of social success, concerned only with vanity and beauty.  This is yet again a nod to the Clarissas and their way of life; taking joy in everything, no matter how trivial.

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