Kelly Spillman Mr. Lawler Advanced English 11 8 January 1999 Going Along With Society Edith Wharton was the fist woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for The Age of Innocence in 1921(Magill, Masterplots II 1: 40). She likes to show what happens to people that are not prepared to live in a complicated w...

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