In Edith Wharton’s novel, The Age of Innocence, Irony is a perpetual theme and appears in many aspects of the plot. The novel is presented through the point of view of an omniscient unnamed narrator, and describes a story of old New York’s reactions to scandal and contradiction. In a society where aristocrat families influence the city, and the powerful dictate the social classes, the idea of innocence is not illustrated. Throughout the first few chapters of the story the narrator makes ironic comments about New York’s society.
The idea of a social hierarchy is presented throughout the novel. “In metropolises it was not the thing to arrive early at the opera; and what was or was not the thing played a part as important in Newland Archer’s
The idea of a social hierarchy is presented throughout the novel. “In metropolises it was not the thing to arrive early at the opera; and what was or was not the thing played a part as important in Newland Archer’s