I'm honestly amazed by the Genius of Oscar Wilde. After falling in love with The Importance of Being Earnest I wasn't sure if he'll be able to do it again but Boy, was I wrong. Lady Windermere's fan was just as brilliant (maybe not as witty but definately a strong narrative full of funny and shocking moments). 
 This Play is about Lady Windermere. When she learns that her husband has an improper relation with another woman (of low Status) and then wants to divide this woman into their home, she fucking loses it. She tries everything to prevent her husband from committing social suicide and humilation and then threatens to STRIKE this woman WITH HER FAN if she were to set foot into her home. Craaazy! :D 
 But let's talk about this a bit more chronologically: 
 ACT ONE 
 The Play starts out in Lord Windermere's house. Lord Darlington who is infatuated with Lady Windermere visits her and compliments her in a very over-the-top-way (read: I would have covered the whole street in front of your house with flowers for you to walk on). Lady Windermere however is having None of it: 
 I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of cheap things that he doesn't mean. 
 SLAY MAMA ! Overall Lady Windermere was a highly likeable character because she stood up for Woman's Rights and had just Overall good morals (even though the executions of her beliefs were sometimes not really Happening... :D) 
 And they start argueing about a whole lot of things. One of my favorite Quotes from this Play which beautifully portrays the traits of These two characters, goes as follows: 
 Vileness is a terrible word, Lady Windermere. 
 It is a terrible thing, Lord Darlington. 
 I also really like that Lord Darlington foreshadows what Lady Windermere is about to learn about her husband's scandal. 
 So the burden of her husband meeting and lunching and giving money to a woman with an illicit past is heaved upon Lady Windermere by the Duches of Berwick 
 Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen,and that they all fit. 
 Lady Windermere then proceeds on confronting her husband whose becoming more and more desperate because (to the reader) it is quite clear that a misunderstanding is at work but that something is preventing him from telling Lady Windermere the whole truth... 
 Margaret, none of us men may be good enough for the women we marry - that is quite true - but you don't imagine I would ever - oh, the suggestion is monstrous. 
 But on the other hand the reader also sympathizes with Lady Windermere because her suspicion is validated and her husband really isn't doing a great job at conveying his honesty because he then tells his wife that he invited this woman to a party that the Windermere's will hold that evening. 
 This results in the most badass line of the play: 
 Yes, you gave me this fan to-day. [...] If that woman crosses my threshold, I shall strike her across the face with it. 
 ACT TWO 
 The second act starts out with the ball/ party in the evening. I was literally on the edge of my seat and anticipating the woman's entrance. ;) But Oscar prolonges this anticipation by giving the reader one of his witty glances into the British high society. The Windermere's guests are all a tad fake and definately think that they're the wisest and wittiest people in the world and express beliefs that are not only absurd but also quite ridiculous: 
 It's most dangerous nowadays for a husband to pay attention to his wiffe in public. It always makes people think he beats her when they're alone. 
 Then finally the woman - Mrs. Erlynne - is announced and Lady Windermere... let's her fan drop to the floor. Well, that was anti-climatic but also quite funny because you can actually see how uncomfortable LORD Windermere is and that Erlynne is just a little badass and doesn't give a shit about anyone's opinion. 
 The comments and attention she gets from the males in the room, you have to know she 
 looks like an edition de luxe of a wicked French novel, meant especially for the English market. are just as disgusting as cat-whistles nowadays... 
 Lady Windermere is quite overwhelmed with the situation and that her hubby is talking with this woman in public that the consoles herself with Lord Darlington. Who finally sees his chance and confesses his love to her, he holds quite the beautiful speech about how Lady Windermere shouldn't stay with a husband who dishonored her and that she deserves better etc. but as Lady Windermere doesn't consent to his proposal he gives her an ultimatum. If she wants to run away with him she has one day to decide because on the morrow he is leaving for England. Hot damn. 
 This proposal/threat whatever adds to Lady Windermere's anxiety and she decides that she can't stay with her husband any longer. She leaves him a letter in which she states that if he truly loves her he has to come after her to Lord Darlington's place and then leaves. Mrs. Erlynne finds this letter and is quite in shock because she fears that history will repeat itself. The reader finally learns that Mrs. Erlynne is Lady Windermere's mother and that she left her father in disgrace 20 years ago. 
 She then hides the letter from Lord Windermere and sets out to save her child from social suicide. 
 ACT THREE 
 Lady Windermere is highly distressed (in Darlington's place) because her husband hasn't come after her. She is then confronted by Mrs. Erlynne who urges her to return to Lord Darlington. Lady Windermere is finally convinced that her place is with her husband. 
 We then get this beautifully ridiculous scene in which the ladies have to hide behind the curtains because the men arrive. The men aka Lord Darlington, Lord Windermere, Mr. Dumby, Mr. Cecil Graham and Lord Augustus Lorton. It's quite ridiculous. :D 
 They talked about the whole incidence because Mrs. Erlynne caused quite the stir and Lord Augustus wants to marry her (because he is fascinated by her). 
 Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. 
 The whole scenes results in Lord Windermere seeing his wife's fan and Darlington's chambers and losing his fucking shit. Mrs. Erlynne then becomes a heroine because she reveals herself to the men and says that she took Lady Windermere's fan by mistake and takes all the blame and shame alone. Boss-ass-lady! 
 ACT FOUR 
 Act Four is basically the reconciliation of Lord and Lady Windermere and I kinda love the Lord (even though he calls his wife "my child" but well, times change). 
 Mrs. Erlynne then visits then yet again (to the Lady's delight and the Lord's sorrow - oh how the roles have changed) and takes farewell with her child. 
 Oh don't imagine I am going to have pathetic scene with her, weep on her neck and tell her who Iam, and all that kind of thing. I have no ambition to play a part of a mother. 
 The reader really gets to love Mrs. Erlynne in this act because one can clearly see how much she regrets abandoning Lady Windermere when she was a child. She then makes sure that Lord Windermere will never reveal to his wife her origins because she fears the shame would wreck her. Lord Windermere consents to this. 
 The play ends in the most satisfying way because it is a proper happy end. Mrs. Erlynne is (due to her cunning and badassery) not doomed as Lord Augustus is still going to marry (she explained to him why she was at Darlington's house -> basically lies, says that she thought that Lord Augustus was there LOL). The play ends with the congratulations of both Lord and Lady Windermere: 
 LORD WINDERMERE: Well, you are certainly marrying a very clever woman! 
 LADY WINDERMERE (taking her husband's hands): Ah, you're marrying a very good woman! 
 I LOVE THIS 
 Favorite quotes: 
 LORD DARLINGTON: We are all in the gutter, but some of us a re looking at the stars. In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. CECIL GRAHAM: What is a cynic? 
 LORD DARLINGTON: A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. CECIL GRAHAM: Experience is the name Tuppy gives to his mistakes. That is all. MRS. ERLYNNE: I regret my bad actions, you regret your good ones. That is the difference between us. MRS. ERLYNNE: Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.