The revolution in Edith Wharton's world, characteristically a revolution of manners, came when the infiltration of these merchant class leading to the …show more content…
She is the critic of that subtler American materialism which consists in having ideas only to let then tyrannize over due and drive one to preposterous lengths. Became American civilizations is young, it is difficult for ideas to circulate freely and naturally. Either Americans have them not, or else have a few of them madly, ungovernably to the pitch of obsession. Mrs. Wharton is the satirist both of American materialism and their freakish and faddish emancipation from