The+Age+of+Innocence

__The Age of Innocence__ Edith Wharton

My story is called __The Age of Innocence__ and is a story about a young girl who is going to get married to a rich man. This is taken during the Golden Age of Old New York and the young woman named May Welland is very wealthy and spoiled. She is so very famous and is at the popular Academy of Music in New York in the beginning of the book. I selected this novel because I love romance and sweet and innocent books, and this sounded like one of them that interested me. Some of the background information that I needed to know so that it would interest me was knowing that there was a big problem with her love triangle. And that was her big problem. As the story begins, May Welland was going to the Academy of Music in the state of New York and she was a very big star there and was getting loads and loads of attention from everyone, let alone the newscasters but the people, fans! The person telling this story was the author. The setting is at the Academy of Music and in New York, a very wealthy and famous place for only “ important “ people. And I do not think it can take place anywhere else because then it would change the whole setting, like people wouldn't be newscasting her and asking her so many questions and everything. Well for me the author grabs my attention in the beginning of the book by saying the first line “ On a January Evening “ and it was also in capital letters. Another way was when the author would put lyrics in the book and show the reader how the song goes by showing that. Lastly, the author says words like and....... and then its like okay I HAVE to read more!!!