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The Gilded Age: Why Aunt Agnes Is Right About Mr. Raikes
In HBO’s The Gilded Age, Agnes Van Rijn is correct to distrust her niece Marian’s suitor, Tom Raikes. Agnes is certain Mr. Raikes is an adventurer who is after Marian because he thinks she will inherit money. Marian thinks this is another example of Aunt Agnes's old-money snobbishness, and that she's biased against Mr. Raikes because of his background as a small-town lawyer. However, Agnes’s attitude may be more sensible than Marian gives her credit for.