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Wharton's 'The Reef.' (Edith Wharton)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 19930622
Author:MacNaughton, William R.

Edith Wharton's mention of character Jimmy Brance in the second chapter of 'The Reef' and only after in the final chapter is significant. Brance indicates the true character of Sophie Viner rather than the idealised perspective offered by Anna Leath. Brance was a character associated with Viner's sordid past with Mrs Murrett, her former employer. Brance's reintroduction at the end of the book reminds the reader that Viner's decision to rejoin Murrett at the end of the book casts doubt on her future.

Early in book 1 of Edith Wharton's The Reef, the American diplomat George Darrow is having ...

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