Innocence A05 Flashcards
1
Q
Cynthia Griffin Wolff
A
‘Newland and Ellen both perceive the other primarily in terms of some romanticised personal need’
2
Q
Louis Auchincloss
A
‘The only vigor shown by the male characters is in their domination of the female’
3
Q
Stephen Orgel, 2006
A
‘The Age of Innocence includes nothing so exotic as a Jew - the bohemian artists and writers Ellen admires remain as firmly offstage as does her polish husband’
4
Q
Pamela Knights
A
‘Archer locks May in the virginial script he criticises’
5
Q
Katherine Joslin
A
‘Wharton’s old New York before the Great War was in a prelapsarian state’
(Before religious ‘fall of man’)
