Age Of Innocence Quotes Flashcards
Chapter 1- Newland’s ownership of May -in Opera House
‘thrill posseiveship…..in which pride in his own male initiation’
Chapter 1 Ellen’s presence at the Opera shocks lefferts and Jackson
‘My God’-S.J
‘I didn’t think the Mingotts would have tired it on’-Lefferts
Eptiome Of Ellen(constant phrasing)
‘Poor Ellen’
Chapter 1 disgust towards the New Money
‘Keeping out the new people whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to’
First View of Archer upholding social conventions-Chapter 1 (flowers)
‘the duty… of never appearing in society without a flower in his buttonhole’
Chapter Social Conventions
‘it was not the thing to arrive early’
May’s flowers pure innocence
‘Lillies of the valley on her knee’
association of May’s innocence and purtiy
Unspoken communication In New York society Chapter 2
(Archer looking at May)
‘He saw that she had instantly understood his motive’
Count olenska messing around wit hoes
Harlots
Newland tired of NY conventions on women
I’m sick of the hypocrisy that would bury alive a woman”
New York society description
“Slippery pyramid”
“Tribal codes”
“Terrifying product”
“Hieroglyphics world”
Archer on laws and social customs-divorce
Our legislation favours divorce
Our social customs do not
Double stabdard Ellen divorce outcast exemptions
Not if the woman however injured and irreproachable in appearances has exposed herself to unconventional action
Vander Luydend Top Gs
“Powerful influence”
Ellen tired of being fake for NY
“All these kind people asking you to pretend”
