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“The Custom of the Country” by Edith Wharton revolves around the never ending soap opera of Undine Spragg’s life. ...
Undine and Ralph eventually get married and are followed through most of the book. ... And like every addiction there is a withdrawal and usually demise and that’s what happens in Edith Wharton’s book. ... This period is known as the gilded age. The gilded age began in the late 1800’s and was around until the early 1920’s. The gilded age marked a great revolution among technology and people. The gilded age was a time where many young entrepreneurs were coming up with new inventions and profiting off of them. ... Yet, during the Gilded Age, the rapid transformation from an agricultural and mercantile economy to industrialism, presented unprecedented opportunities to daring speculators and inventive entrepreneurs. ...
A precedent for gilded age architecture has to be the Vanderbilt mansion. ... The Vanderbilt’s were the most dominant family during the gilded age. ... The Chiswick house, and also many of the early chateaus are very similar to the houses created during the gilded age. ... Gilded age architecture stands as a reminder of how people can believe that money can buy them happiness.
Approximate Word count = 1074
Approximate Pages = 4.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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