Author: sophiacc2020

In Edith Wharton’s, The Age of Innocence, the beginning chapters of the story have successfully pulled me in. While reading this novel it has begun to stir thoughts in my mind about the ay that individuals conform to society and what is calls “normal” so quickly. In the book the main character, Newland Archer, meets Ellen, […]

  In The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, her story begins with the introduction of late 1800s aristocratic, New York along with a wealthy young man, Newland Archer. With the introduction of Archer it quickly becomes clear of his place is New York’s extremely wealthy upper class. In knowing his place the reader becomes […]