This article examines the concept of reification in John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga trilogy within the framework of Georg Lukacs’s theory of reification. By analysing the character of Irene about the members of the Forsyte family, particularly with her husband Soames Forsyte, this study delves into the dual process by which Galsworthy employs reification. The Forsytes, valuing Irene merely for her financial worth and treating her as property, thus reifying her, are ultimately confined within their own reified consciousness. This study illustrates how Soames’s “spider’s web” metaphor represents the inescapability of the bourgeois consciousness in its property-oriented world. By depicting Irene as a silent and resilient character, Galsworthy presents a profound critique of capitalist values and the bourgeois society of Victorian England. This article claims that The Forsyte Saga assumes Lukacs’s theoretical framework by portraying reification not solely as an economic phenomenon but as a psychological trap that alters both the objectifier and objectified.