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Wharton: The Other Two

Edith Wharton was brought up in a rich and privileged family. She lived in a time when the high-class circle feared the drastic social changes that occurred due to post-civil war expansionism and immigration (The Norton Anthology 829). The story, The Other Two, is Wharton’s way of reflecting on the social changes that American society was undergoing. I plan to focus my response on the psychology of the main character, Mr. Waythorn.

The story’s main character is a high society man who is the archetype for the values that most men during his time held as a standard. His status as a Wall Street investor and as a man who has the means to have servants, gives us a clear parallel between himself and high society. What he thinks or believes is a doorway into the psychology of high society as a whole. This is apparent throughout the story as the main character is always preoccupied with what the society pages have to say about his wife.......

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