quotes on class and society Flashcards
(15 cards)
The Van der Luydens are compelled to wield what? Importance of heritage in NY society
‘mouthpieces of some remote ancestral authority which fate compelled them to wield’
‘sovereign gentleness’
Quote on class (pyramid)
*‘New York ‘was a small and slippery pyramid, in which, as yet, hardly a fissure had been made or a foothold gained.’ (chapter 6)
quote on society (scandal)
‘the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than “scenes,” except the behavior of those who gave rise to them.’ (chapter 33)
quote on class (hieroglyphic world)
they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs (chapter 6)
quote on society (taste)
‘Few things seemed to Newland Archer more awful than an offense against “Taste,” that far-off divinity of whom “Form” was the mere visible representative and viceregent.’(chapter 2)
quote on society(the thing)
’ what was or was not “the thing” played a part as important in Newland Archer’s New York as the inscrutable totem terrors that had ruled the destinies of his forefathers’ (chapter 1)
quote on society (the individual)
“The individual, in such cases, is nearly always sacrificed to what is supposed to the collective interest’ (archer to mm Olenska chapter 12)
quote on society (masculine solidarity)
Singly they betrayed their inferiority; but grouped together they represented “New York,” and the habit of masculine solidarity made him accept their doctrine on all issues called moral. (chapter 1)
quote on society (hypocrisy)
‘Archer’s New York tolerated hypocrisy in private relations; but in business matters it exacted a limpid and impeccable honesty.’ chapter 26
quote on society (scandal)
‘the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than “scenes,” except the behavior of those who gave rise to them.’ (chapter 33)
mrs truthers
‘They begin by talking about the regrettable presence of Mrs. Struthers at the ball.’
Newland tries to ‘warn her’ and ‘try to stop her’, “
‘Champagne made from shoe polish’
‘mrs Struthers whose been trying to enter New York society’
ned winsett
Pitiful little minority’
‘No centre, no competition, no audience’
‘Culture! Yes–if we had it!’
‘Pictures on the walls of a deserted house: ‘The Portrait of a Gentlemen’
Mrs Manson Mingott
‘carnivorous old lady’
‘we need new money and new blood’
‘everybody in NY has always know everybody’
conventions…
‘conventions on which his life was moulded’
who was new york beginning to dread
the opera ‘keeps out’ the ‘new people that new York was begging to dread yet be drawn to’
