WASPs play the game with deadly calculation wrapped in good manners.
A Nebbadoon review by Joan Ellis. Edith Wharton wrote about the politics of New York society at the turn of the century with the practiced eye of an insider. Born an American WASP with the limited options of the species, Wharton invited the disapproval of her contemporaries depicting the social code in novels like The Age of Innocence. Wharton got it right, but filmmakers often stumble when they bring her novels to the screen. New York is a tougher assignment.