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The Custom of the Country is a 1913 tragicomedy of manners novel by the American Edith Wharton. It tells the story of Undine Spragg, a Midwestern girl who attempts to ascend in New York City society.
The Spraggs, a own family of midwesterners from the fictional town of Apex who have made cash through incredibly shady monetary dealings, arrive in New York City at the prompting of their lovely, bold, however socially naive daughter, Undine. She marries Ralph Marvell, a could-be poet and member of an old New York circle of relatives that has social reputation but not enjoys massive wealth. Before her wedding ceremony, Undine encounters an acquaintance from Apex named Elmer Moffatt, an bold and quite unpleasant man or woman with "a genuine disdain for spiritual piety and social cant", as the scholar Elaine Showalter observes. Undine, who appears to have had a dating with Moffatt that might prove embarrassing to her, begs him no longer to do anything that will endanger her wedding ceremony to Ralph. Elmer has the same opinion.