"The Long Run" by Edith Wharton is a story set in the early 1900s that looks at Halston Merrick's memories and the paths he's taken in life. It's a novel about how love, what people expect from you, and the decisions you face all mix together, especially when it comes to his feelings for Paulina Trant. After being apart for years, Merrick meets Paulina again, but they both realize life has changed them, filled with disappointments. Merrick thinks about his choices, like staying to run the family business, even though he wanted something more. As Paulina gets married to someone else, Reardon, Merrick understands how complicated love and doing what's expected of him can be. The story shows how choices can change who you are and how you feel, and it asks what it really means to experience life and love.
The Long Run 1916
By Edith Wharton
Amidst societal expectations and personal desires, old friends reunite and confront the choices that shaped their lives, revealing the bittersweet reality of love and regret.
Summary
About the AuthorEdith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, for her novel, The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, in 1996. Her other well-known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories.
Edith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, for her novel, The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, in 1996. Her other well-known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories.
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