In the critical analysis of The Age of Innocence, done by Constance Allen, the author depicts the novel as "subtle yet unmistakable indictment of stratified New York high society in 1920." ... People know what is expected of them and there are invisible boundaries of class and propriety that one must never cross. ... New York society disapproves of her because she has left her husband, because she supposedly had an affair with another man, and because she lives her life unconventionally. ... He is a wealthy young man torn between his love for a woman acceptable by the social convention...

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