 I’ve always been fascinated by her unblinking exegesis of all this, the way you are when someone breaks the rules, the way you are when you read something and think, "What?Are you allowed to write about this?” Wharton wrote about her world in a way that made it possible for me – and for all of us who come after her – to go into our own worlds still further, and to tease out the innermost reaches of pain and passion from the decorous woven fabric of our lives".Her work is increasingly used for teaching purposes, and the University of Connecticut has taught a course called, "The Works of Roxana Robinson".