The contemporary reading of edith wharton: The inner chambers of the age of innocence

With its limitless prosperity, hyperbole, indifference, and energy, The Gilded Age is one of the few significant periods that highlights the realities of American culture. In addition, Edith Wharton is one of the few novelists, who had the potential to turn the era into flesh and blood. The subject of this study is to indicate the inner chambers of The Age of Innocence(1920), and the secret meaning of the novel. To disclose this multi vocal innovation, parallel to American history, the text is examined from the perspectives of poststructuralism, new-historicism, and deconstruction. In conclusion, the study aims to illustrate how appearences are seldom synonymous with realities. Hence, contrary to structural readings, The Age of Innocence proclaims the reality that The Gilded Age, which is represented in the novel, apparently portrays America, not the glorification of Europe against America, a house of cards, based upon artificial realities