Question

A(n) _____is a long narrative that forms a study of the characteristic behaviors, customs, and values of a particular society. expression problem play novel of manners story in a story

Answer 1

The correct answer is a novel of manners

Plays are not necessarily long while a story in a story is called an embedded story. A novel of manners fits the description of what you explained.

Answer 2

A novel of manners is a long narrative that forms a study of the characteristic behaviors, customs, and values of a particular society.

Novel of manners, work of fiction that re-creates a social world, conveys with  detailed observation the customs, values, and mores of a highly developed and complex society.

Notable writers of the novel of manners from the end of the 19th century into the 20th include Henry James, Evelyn Waugh, Edith Wharton, and John Marquand.