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Difficult one to assess. One of the ‘literary’ works, and I came into this one with an assumption of complexity and excellence in writing that was only partially born out. It’s overall an effective work, however, and renders the core characterizationg effectively. Thinking back to the novel after reading it, the point that emerges clearly is how the protagonist grapples with and manipulates American class structures from personal ambition and general access to resources. It not a hugely distinguishable personality that stands memorably beyond the story, and in a way the lack of true complexity weakens the force of the book. There are certainly advantages to tying the main psychology so closely to the unfolding of events. It’s elements like this that linked with engaging prose and control over time that make for a good energy to reading the work.

The strongest critique in the novel and the point where it’s most compelling is it’s representation of marriage in the early twentieth century class structure. The fetishes of bourgeois marriage are well presented, particularly the ritualized protestations of love and respectability that bound fundamentally mercenary structures. In exposing general social hypocrisy and framing dramatic situations that specifically embody such facets the novel succeeds, and it must have been a sensation when published in 1913. It hasn’t aged entirely well, however, and in some ways suffers from the specificity of its scenario. Certainly basic issues with marriage, capitalism and aristocracy remain relevant, but the book lacks a certain force, a necessary drama that would lift this work into truly great literature.

I feel at this point that I’ve been somewhat too harsh, after all this book is effective both in the core mechanics of constructing the narrative as well as rendering a biting social message without resorting to cliche or preaching. It delivers a strong central character and a plot that’s unique as well as relevant. Still, measured on the grounds of sheer engrossment with the process of reading or endurance for the force of the social critique I see Wharton’s novel as second-tier to the best.


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  1. Jessey says:
    June 16, 2010 at 6:31 am

    Undine Spragg is considered to be one of literature’s most disturbingly evil characters. No doubt, Wharton could create the most dastardly of female villains–consider Bertha in “House of Mirth.” This novel, an earlier one than “Age of Innocence” but later than “House of Mirth” is absolutely a masterpiece and I was stunned to realize I had not read this great American novel. I was pretty sure before that Edith Wharton was my favorite American author, now I’m certain. This is brilliance.

    The story follows the young, spoiled, Midwestern beauty Undine from her embarrassing first moments assailing sophisticated New York society to her tainted conquests of society in France and finally New York again in the last moments of the golden age just prior to World War I (which so many authors, Thomas Mann and Colette tell us was the absolute end of a fairy-tale like era.) Wharton shows us the era on the cusp of change; motor cars are commonplace and broughams and landaus “lumbering”–telephones, elevators and subways are woven completely into New York life, heralding the 20th Century’s revolutionary changes to come. Undine is as beautiful, captivating and cold as the soulless water nymph she is NOT named after–here, a delightful bit of Wharton’s irony–THIS Undine is named after a patent hair product created by an enterprising grandparent.

    Undine is clever in focusing on what she needs and wants, though completely uneducated and resistant to literature, arts and any science that does not immediately gratify her wishes. She is the PERFECT portrait of a “borderline personality disorder” who uses and abuses people as a means to her satisfaction, and who is constantly coveting the next, better thing that someone else has. She destroys her husband (a model for the later Newland Archer) and nearly destroys a few other people in her quest for celebrity, unbridled spending and having everything her way. The episodes in the book could come right out of “Dr. Laura”–parents fearful of their own child and giving in to their every whim, neglected and abandoned children used as pawns in divorce, lying, deception, retail therapy gone wild, serial divorce and general destruction of the institution of family values.

    Undine matures only in her ability to “go slow”, as Mrs. Heeny puts it, or to delay her gratification by making at least a few chess moves ahead on the board of her self-absorbed game. Her ability to blame others, never herself and to lay destruction in her path is a thread that never varies in the novel’s unfolding.

    The interesting thing is that Wharton, far from burning the seed corn of her bank of ideas, is astonishingly economical and uses all her characters in her novels over and over again, re-costuming them on her play stage and recycling the scenery. Undine has elements of Bertha (House of Mirth) and is the “anti-Ellen-Olenska (an exact opposite.) She has some of May Archer’s stolid stupidity but surprising insight when it deals with her own survival. She has Lily Bart’s heedlessness and willfulness. Elmer Moffatt, her foil and match, can be recognized in Beaufort from “Age of Innocence.” It’s fascinating to watch the similar characters appear in a new drama on Wharton’s stage, and she is not only a master at drama but also a keen sociologist and anthropologist. We peep into French nobility, New York society and the demi-monde, all drawn with her exquisite sense of customs and mores.

    If you love “Age of Innocence” and “House of Mirth” you can’t help but love this novel. I’m not sure if it isn’t her greatest–and it is almost on a par with Eliot’s earlier “Middlemarch”–of which Virginia Woolff said was “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people.” “The Custom of the Country” was not only written for grown-up people, but is as fresh and modern and as filled with the same dilemmas people face today as in 1913.

  2. Kipp says:
    June 16, 2010 at 6:32 pm

    THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY is a great novel, arguably Wharton’s finest, although she is better known for THE AGE OF INNOCENCE and THE HOUSE OF MIRTH. The primary character Undine Spragg is certainly one of the strongest and most significant in American literature, but this novel has many interesting, poignant, and exasperating secondary characters such as Paul Marvell, Elmer Moffatt, and Raymond de Chelles. THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY is a novel about the clash of cultures, the war between and among the sexes and generations, and the dichotomy between the old and new world as represented by Europe and America. It is also an insightful and incisive examination of selfishness and insensitivity in the person of Undine, a small town girl with big ambitions, whose sense of self entitlement and voracious appetite for improving her station in life will leave a string of unfortunate victims in her wake.

    THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY has a riveting plot, is wonderfully written, and gives us a fascinating picture of high society both in early 20th century New York and in France, where the Nouveau riche mix and mingle to various degrees of success with established families in America and the nobility in France. Given Edith Wharton’s background and experiences both in the States and abroad, every page is written with an air of authority and the resounding ring of truth. If I were asked to recommend one Wharton novel above all others, it would be this one.

  3. Donahue says:
    June 17, 2010 at 6:23 am

    Edith Wharton uses language in such beautiful ways, and to read her prose is a literary experience to crown all others. Her similes and metaphors are genius, incredible. Her acute sense of humor is there as well, for example when she speaks of Mrs. Spragg’s having more to fear now than simply the horse (the horse instructor had eyes upon her daughter). Her social commentary is sharp, and classification for this writer as an anthropologist is correct. It all comes together in one pivotal scene in which “the custom of the country” is specifically mentioned, and we recognize the relationships between men and women as they stand, and how women cannot truly be blamed for their faults in a society in which they are allowed to practice no crafts of their own. Custom’s protagonist has ample faults to be sure. She is selfish and lives life only looking to acquire the next best thing, but as a reader, one surely never comes to hate her. She is an interesting character study, even if her motives are always one dimensional. One almost wonders at her lack of sympathy, and can only grieve at the wake of sorrow left in her trail. This book is beautiful and exceptional! – made me think of Henry James. Also amusing pondering the differences between Americans and our European equivalents and the differences that living in this country has instilled in us.

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    June 17, 2010 at 6:15 pm

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    Take Me to the Water: Immersion Baptism in Vintage Music and Photography 1890-1950

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