Everything That Happened in "The Gilded Age" Season 1

Gladys Russell spends most of the season pushing back against her mother's strict rules. All she wants is to enter society and be treated as a young woman, not a child, but her mother insists that she can't have her coming-out ball until Bertha can fill the ballroom with New York's elite. Her one attempt at a romance is cut short by her parents, while Oscar van Rijn tries to woo her for her money. The set-piece of the season finale is her coming-out ball, where she finally decides that she's had enough of everyone else making choices for her.