Probably the worst literary writing I've ever done... it was difficult to use "I"

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

In Wharton's novel about Victorian New York society, I wish that Newland Archer had lived up to his own ideals of himself. I hoped that he would escape from the harmful and oppressive mores of his social set, and expand his mind the way he hoped to. I also wish he had been able to free May Welland of her "abysmal purity."

I hoped that May would truly turn out to be as guileless as she was brought up to act, but thriving in her society necessitated a still surface, with a continual, unspoken, unseen, agreed-upon turbulance just below to clear out what was declared debris. I wish that Meg had been of stronger mind and character. However, I also wish that she didn't end up absorbing all of the blame for Newland's choices, as she started by giving him an out, and can't be blamed that he didn't take it.

I wish the Countess Olenska had really come home to the safe place she thought that she had. I wish that society had not decided that she was decietful and immoral, because the reality was the opposite... she was all that May pretended to be, used to overt struggle, but not understanding, or seeing until too late, that she calm surface of Victorian New York was just a front. I wish she had been able to break away much sooner.