Vanity Fair Review - A Book Review
Vanity Fair Review by Beverly Barton. Based on the book of the very same name, "Vanity Fair" tells the story of impoverished Becky Sharp as she struggles to climb out of her poverty and to scale the heights of English societal status in the latter years after the demise of Napoleon. Set against the tumultuous years after the French victory in Europe, Sharp struggles to rise above her Station with little attention to the consequences. In her attempts to progress herself, her petty thievery, schemes, fights, romances, and cheating, she upsets not only her social circle but also exposes the ugliest aspects of nineteenth-century England. "Vanity Fair" offers a refreshing look at the underclass of that time and the freedoms they had to survive and enjoy. Becky Sharp is a thirty-one-year-old woman who works as a housekeeper for her grandmother, Aunt Polly. The home is a place where Becky spends much of her spare time relieving the elderly and sewing for her grandmother. W...