In both, Wharton's novel "The Age of Innocence" and Sinclair's "The Jungle," society has a direct effect on the characters. I am going to discuss the effects society has on a soci...

In the book, The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton, the characters are extremely interesting in how they choose to present themselves. There is one social group in which they are all rich upper class Americans, with an aura of snobbishness surrounding them. Then there is one woman who ran with ...