Setting
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton

The Age of Innocence: Setting 1 key example

Definition of Setting

Setting is where and when a story or scene takes place. The where can be a real place like the city of New York, or it can be an imagined... read full definition
Setting is where and when a story or scene takes place. The where can be a real place like the city of New York, or... read full definition
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Key Examples in The Age of Innocence

Setting
Explanation and Analysis:

The Age of Innocence takes place in New York in the 1870s, with characters traveling at times to Boston, Newport, London, and Paris. During the 1870s, the United States was transitioning from the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era to the Gilded Age, moving from a state of war to economic growth (stemming, in large part, from exploitation of the working class).