as small as the details of a landscape seen through the wrong end of a telescope. Now and then she tied to remind herself that she had married him for love; but she was well aware that the sentiment she had once entertained for him had nothing in common with the state of mind which the words now represented to her; and this naturally diminished the force of the argument. She had married him at nineteen, because he had beautiful blue eyes and always wore a gardenia in his coat; really, as far as she could remember, these considerations had been the determining factors in her choice. Delia as a child [her parents were since dead) had been a muchindulged daughter, with a liberal allowance of pocket—money, and permission to spend it unquestioned and unadyised. Subsequently, she used sometimes to look, in a critical humor, at the various articles which she had purchased in her teens; futile chains and lockets, yalueless china knick—knacks, and poor engravings of sentimental pictures. These as a chastisement to her taste, she religiously preserved, and they often made her think of Benson. No one, she could not but reflect, would have blamed her if, with the acnuirement of a fuller discrimination, she had thrown them all out of the window and replaced them by some object of permanent merit; but she was expected not only to keep Benson for life, but to conceal the fact that her taste had long since discarded him

The following excerpt is from "The Lamp of Psyche" by Edith Wharton (published in 1895). In this passage, a newly remarried Delia Benson Corbett looks back on her relationship with her first husband. Read the passage carefully. Then, in a well-written essay, analyze how the choices and actions Wharton assigns to Delia convey Delia's complex character.

In your response you should do the following:
Respond to the prompt with a thesis that presents an interpretation and may establish a line of reasoning.