The background of " The Age of Innocence " is an enduring masterpiece whic is considered to be the most perfect Edith Wharton novel. Authors extracted from their own personal experience and familiar environment material, shaping the character , and the work is rooted in the profound reality of the subject matter in soil . Based on the novel of the upper half of the Wharton exposure to depressing New York high society life experiences . After the forced 13 -year-old with his older married man , Wharton live in a unshakable bound by traditions and customs sectors of society , the freedom to express themselves without a space , he felt disillusioned . • novel published in the First World War , the First World War , the whole of Western society and the old New York are experiencing a sea change society. Wharton was already living in Paris for five years , compared with once repressed dreary New York , a great social change . • " The Age of Innocence ," a book not only describes the author 's youth, but also to show the reader a bourgeois aristocracy and even the troubled history of the decline of the screen . On the one hand the post-war New York aristocracy still see themselves as the highest levels of society , the other party will be in the works Wharton entrenched social mores and customs of primitive civilization were fine comparison.
