Kelly Spillman Mr. Lawler Advanced English 11 8 January 1999 Going Along With Society Edith Wharton was the fist woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for The Age of Innocence in 1921(Magill, Masterplots II 1: 40). She likes to show what happens to people that are not prepared to live in a complicated world in her novels. Like Wharton’s other novels, The Age of Innocence involves a love triangle. This seems to be her favorite way of showing her …showed first 75 words of 1378 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1378 total…she knew the subject so well and had similar experiences as her characters. Works Cited Faust, Langdon. American Woman Writers. 2 vols. New York: Ungar,1983. Magill, Frank N. Critical Survey of Long Fiction. 8 vols. Englewood Cliffs: Salem Press Inc., 1991. Magill, Frank N. Masterplots. 1vol. Englewood Cliffs: Salem Press Inc., 1996. Magill, Frank N. Masterplots II: Womaen’s Literature Series. 1 vols. Englewood Cliffs: Salem Press, 1995. Wharton, Edith. The Age of Innocence. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1920. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**