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The short story, Valley of Childish Things by Edith Wharton, published in Century Magazine in 1896, reflects on the process of growing up. A young girl who grew up in the Valley where children lived and played games, decided to take initiative and leave this valley on her own and experience the outside world. She goes through trials and tribulations just like every individual growing up. She decided to go back to the Valley to visit everyone and possibly stay there, but when she returned she saw nothing had changed.

Edith Wharton was a popular, influential, and distinguished female writer in America. She was born in 1862 and passed away in 1937. Throughout her life span, she accomplished and overcame many things. She grew up in Europe with her family because of the effect inflation had during the Civil War. She then moved to America where she met a man whose name was Edward (Teddy) Wharton. The two got married when she was twenty- three and he was thirty-five. In the 1890s, Wharton started to suffer from depression but was able to overcome it by 1902. However, her husband, in 1903, also started to suffer from mental illness.