Unlike Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Kästner's Fabian, Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning work, The Age of Innocence Innocence (1920) is not set after World War I. In fact, his work is set before then, at the turn of the century. It depicts old New York from the late 19th century and early 20th century writ large detail: “The society and customs of New York... are described with an almost disconcerting precision: to read these pages is to relive them.” He also looks at the upper class society, rather than the middle and lower, with its ballrooms of debauchery and improper stresses. The threat of modernity after the war and depression are not factors in his work. However, not all elements and motifs seen in Kästner and Fitzgerald are absent. Wharton pays particular attention to women and social change especially in the context of Victorian virtues and expectations. For Wharton, old New York forced its members to follow dogmatic rules and expectations for almost every course of actions, including: mannerisms, popular fashions, and behaviors. Contempt and exile were reserved for those who violated social codes. These virtues and social rules were the same rules that Flappers and New Woman specifically degraded after the premiere world war, “Mrs Wharton is all for the new and against the old: here, at any rate, her sympathies are warm. She would never… be afraid of young men knocking at the door. "Like her contemporaries, Wharton was an accomplished author when she wrote The Age of Innocence. . Her "admirable career" claimed the titles of The House of Mirth, Edith Frome, and many others that captivated American and European audiences. The Age of Innocence, however, earned her a Pulitzer Prize for her works “Silver Correspondences”, its...... middle of paper ......f Innocence, Wharton examines women's struggle with Victorian dogma and traditionalist values ​​of high society. The high society of old New York in Wharton's work lives by these notions where people were governed by the social code. The world seems innocent and free from thought and individual conflicts. Members of this society continue to conform to maintain the status quo. Going against the grain is seen as selfish, ignoble and scandalous. Countess Olenska is the representation of the modern woman and the symbol of the new century. It goes against the grain of society. Countess Ellen Olenska, Ellen Mingott lives an unconventional life. She is marginalized by society, its rigid rules and expected behaviors. In this old New York society, she is a source of scandal. Countess Olenska is an individual. Thinks and feels beyond group boundaries.