Themes are the stifling culture of NY‘s old elite inter-marrying families, where men control the money, and woman are dependent. Wharton gives us humans within this culture. Overall, the stories benefit from that Wharton prose that makes everything easy and comfortable and interesting. Her writing catches us readers early. You're involved, characters crystallize before your eyes quickly, sometimes many all at once, each distinct.
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