Victorian Men are "aristocrats [that] move in their gilded circles from opera to dinner to drawing room, with a costume for every role and every time of day." (Ebert 3) Newland Archer was one of these ... was "the thing." "[I]n the first place, New York was a metropolis, and perfectly aware that in metropolises it was "not the thing" to arrive early at the opera; and it what was or was not "the thing" played a part as important in Newland Archer's New York- (Wharton 4) The descendants of an aristocratic family were ... Museum, and the spectacle of those great spaces crowded with spoils of th...

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