AP English: The Age Of Innocence By Edith Wharton

AP English: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence was written by the late Edith Wharton. The book is a play on the early stages of America in the life of the most well bred and noble Americans. The Age of Innocence was written so specifically for one time in American History that it fails at transcending over multiple generations. Though this work is written with a level of expertise, spirit and play on a centuries old forbidden taboo of loving someone you're not meant to.The book continuously fell short for me. With its slow character building, lack of real climax, and it's inability to take the reader to a whole new world, that would, in turn, showcase the birth of America along with its highest class.I feel that this

He lacks in having any leader like qualities whether you hated him or loved him. On pages here and there you see these moments where he is being a real lead for example page 42. Archer is having thoughts about the ways in which women in their society are being treated and how it should change “Women should be free-free as we are”. In these small moments that happen throughout the book, you really feel the character development and an actual person manifesting from the story. Or even when he falls into these moments of conflict where he wants to be with the other lead Ellen but knows he is to be married now to another woman whose name is May as well as Ellen’s cousin. You really feel the character being created but then the book ends with a whole lot of dead space where character development could have been implemented particularly in chapter 25-30. Ellen, on the other hand, is the one saving grace for this book that makes me understand why the book is a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. She was an incredibly wholesome character that you would be hard pressed to find people like her today but she was the one thing that gave light to the story. When she was upset, I could feel as if the color blue spread across the landscape of black and white pages. When she was being sarcastic I imagine a pale yellow that made everyone else uncomfortable. When she was

At this point in time, these were all key parts of a newborn America no one quite knew how to go about creating an “America” and not a Europe 2.0 and so for a while a lot of European Customs were still a part of what people at that time did in order to have a functioning country. Even though it had been quite a while since America had separated from that part of the world there was still a lot to be done and dealt with. The 1870s were the real start of the second industrial revolution and New York, in particular, was banking on that. This key time period was the development of what shaped a modern day America and without this time the World we know now would never have come to be. However, with this industrial boom, The United States of America began to see a rise in crime a rise in slums, but also a more and more incredibly selective high