![]() ![]() The story follows the materialistic rise of Silas Lapham from rags to riches, and his ensuing moral susceptibility. The Rise of Silas Lapham is a realist novel by William Dean Howells published in 1885.dbr:File:The_Rise_of_Silas_Lapham_in_The_Century_Magazine,_November_1884.jpg.wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/TheRiseOfSilasLapham.jpg?width=300.The resolution of the love triangle of Irene Lapham, Tom Corey, and Penelope Lapham highlights Howells' rejection of the conventions of sentimental romantic novels as unrealistic and deceitful. Howells is known to be the father of American realism, and a denouncer of the sentimental novel. ![]() He loses his money but makes the right moral decision when his partner proposes the unethical selling of the mills to English settlers. Silas earns a fortune in the paint business, but he lacks social standards, which he tries to attain through his daughter's marriage into the aristocratic Corey family. ![]() ![]()
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