The Tone Established in The Age of Innocence
             Respected as the most distinguished of Edith Wharton's novels, The Age of Innocence is a tale of the love, distress, and moral/social conflictions that late 1800s New York experiences via the indecisive affluent young man, Newland Archer. Wharton applies the events of Newland Archer's affairs to serve as the typical roles of society and immoral thoughts. While employing different rhetorical devices and enviable vocabulary, and creating passionate impulses upon readers to help identify each character's individualism, willpower, and foundations, Edith Wharton creates a romantic yet strident tone. Wharton's rhythmic poetry, dialect, and figurative language generate a memorable tone concerning life and its unfortunate hardships.
             Edith Wharton's writing style supports in establishing a romantic tone by transmitting moderately informal word choice. The novel is narrated omnisciently in a simple and fluent manner. "Her tone was so natural, so almost indifferent, that Archer's turmoil subsided. Once more she had managed, by her sheer simplicity, to make him feel stupidly conventional just when he thought he was flinging convention to the winds." These lines mainly reveal the concealed thoughts of Newland Archer's uncontrollable views. It therefore makes readers feel as if they're reading Archer's corrupted thoughts, and Archer is communicating to the reader. The diction flows within its simplicity as a method of projecting the stance each character possesses while expressing the affectionate tone.
             Wharton's use of syntax assists to better establishing a more recognized tone, which attaches her words into a fluent sentence configuration. The syntax is composed of "aged" colloquial sentences allowing the reader to better understand the engagements between characters and settings. "Every one (including Mr. ...