Edith Wharton’s seminal work, The Age of Innocence, offers a scathing yet empathetic critique of the stratified upper-crust society of the 1870s. Through the eyes of Newland Archer, the narrative dissects the profound conflict between individual autonomy and the inexorable pull of tradition, rendering a complex portrait of repressed emotion and moral obligation within a world governed by exacting, unspoken codes.

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