The Cultural Perspective Of New York In Edith Wharton's Novels

As a famous writer, Edith Wharton enjoyed a high reputation for American literary history in twentieth century. At that time, she was considered as one of the most outstanding women writers who have had international reputation first in the United States. But at the same time, she was also a writer who has many controversial issues in the critical world. She has finished more than forty works in her 50 years of creative career, including long novella, poetry, autobiography, literary criticism, travel and even interior decoration works. Edith Wharton's life experiences is unique, and her literary creation which was based on the background to the New York city also has an independent Road in literary history. This paper aims to explore the process of the culture examining which is about her spiritual home in New York city with the background of the times in 1840s'-1870s'.The full text is divided into five parts, followed Edith Wharton's real life trajectory, with time to sort out the sequence of this culture to examine the changes in the process.The first chapter deals with the impacts that New York's social environment play in the growth of Edith Wharton's childhood, adolescents and youth. She was born in New York, and she has been developed the elegant literary taste, which played an important role in her future literary road. it can be said that New York is the starting point of Edith's literature road. In the second chapter, Edith Wharton inspired of her experience and observation of things around. Both of them let Wharton began to doubt New York City which occupied her mind a better position at first. This major doubt comes form money values, moral values and the tragedy which caused marriage values. At the same time, World War I brought her ideological impact. Impacts of these factors, Edith Wharton have started to alienation.Chapter 3 is mainly about Edith Wharton's works in New York city which focused on several major theme of the criticism. First of all is the hatred for New York society which increasingly becoming a purely commercial society. And the community is full of blatant relationship comes from money values, moral evil and cruel people. The second point is about the old New York social conservative shackles of aristocratic etiquette norms of the offensive, and reveals their intentions in the field of ideology of the ruling position of the motive. It is the old New York cultural atmosphere of regret and loss of -art elite that were exposed.The fourth chapter is written on the experience of the world war with the changes of society, the new power holding positions of European culture was money vulgarize. The Frustrated, Edith began to miss her hometown New York, and began to return in terms of ideology. This regression in her creative expression as a heavy sense of history and social customs have made outstanding writing Success in New York, recalls the old-style way. Edith not only showed her sense of historical responsibility but also exposed the historical limitations. But all that exist between New York and interdependent constant feelings. The last chapter is written in New York Edith of the value of her later years writing, her "old New York" in some sections has reached at New York state, this precisely explains Edith'way of how she looks at the culture of New York which has risen to a high degree of philosophy, and she is also the value of Henry James. In contrast, and in future generations of literary works in New York in contrast highlighted. The Edith'New York also highlighted the historical reference value in the eyes of critics and Edith has a history of status can not be ignored. All this note told us that Edith got great literary achievements. And she used the time to complete the life of the culture of New York has been examining the final distillation.