The Custom of the Country Chapter 26

from The Edith Wharton Library · host Edith Wharton

In which Undine revisits her modest family lodgings in New York, confronting the quiet desolation of lost social standing and the burdens that tether her past to a present of uncertainty. The episode softly traces her fraught attempts to reclaim agency through a symbolic rejection of pearls and a tentative new beginning abroad, shadowed by the uneasy companionship of her parents and the stark realities of reinvention.

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