Wharton's Age Of Innocence: Examining Main Character

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DECONSTRUCTION CRITIQUE
Edith Wharton’s Age of Innocence is a literary piece that offers an insight into the feminine perceptions and attitudes. It is a criticism of the feminine nature in relation to the manner in which the world or the society related and handles women. It highlights the notions of commoditization as a primary method. The book is more like the embodiment or personification of the author’s awareness of the increasing importance placed on financial muscle as a driver of most social interactions in the current century. Through her narration, there are some contradictions, omissions, and binary oppositions in language that are evident. This is be evident through the analysis of the characters.
Through the technique of literary deconstruction, the meanings from the book become evident and diverse. Contradiction and juxtaposition is in itself evid...