Both Uses of
caricature
in
The House of Mirth
- The couple in question were engaged in the same kind of romance in which Lily figured, and the latter felt a certain annoyance in contemplating what seemed to her a caricature of her own situation.†
Chpt 1.4 *
- The Gormer MILIEU represented a social out-skirt which Lily had always fastidiously avoided; but it struck her, now that she was in it, as only a flamboyant copy of her own world, a caricature approximating the real thing as the "society play" approaches the manners of the drawing-room.†
Chpt 2.5
Definition:
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(caricature) a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect