Age Of Innocence Quotes

Question 1

Chapter 1- Newland’s ownership of May -in Opera House

Answer 1

‘thrill posseiveship…..in which pride in his own male initiation’

Question 2

Chapter 1 Ellen’s presence at the Opera shocks lefferts and Jackson

Answer 2

‘My God’-S.J
‘I didn’t think the Mingotts would have tired it on’-Lefferts

Question 3

Eptiome Of Ellen(constant phrasing)

Answer 3

‘Poor Ellen’

Question 4

Chapter 1 disgust towards the New Money

Answer 4

‘Keeping out the new people whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to’

Question 5

First View of Archer upholding social conventions-Chapter 1 (flowers)

Answer 5

‘the duty… of never appearing in society without a flower in his buttonhole’

Question 6

Chapter Social Conventions

Answer 6

‘it was not the thing to arrive early’

Question 7

May’s flowers pure innocence

Answer 7

‘Lillies of the valley on her knee’
association of May’s innocence and purtiy

Question 8

Unspoken communication In New York society Chapter 2
(Archer looking at May)

Answer 8

‘He saw that she had instantly understood his motive’