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Age of Innocence: Was Wharton Critical of New York in the 1870’s or was she admiring of it?
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Age of Innocence: Was Wharton Critical of New York in the 1870's or was she admiring of it? Edith Wharton was brought up in an upper class, socially prominent New York family, where the two most significant aspects of education were modern languages and good manners. She is renowned for her infamous novels exploring matters of rigid mores in aristocratic societies like The Age of Innocence. Choosing Newland Archer as the protagonist of the book, she was able to express her ideas through him and through the voices of other characters. Although the diction throughout the book is very sarcastic and somewhat mocking, due to her experiences in World War I, she started missing her quiet childhood in New York and thus making the characters sound naïve and narrow-minded. She was missing the peaceful times when everything wasn't complicated by the war. She was missing the 'age of innocence'. "Centuries...
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