The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton - Books - Independently Published - 9798747537422 - May 3, 2021
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Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence

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In the Newland Archer plot, Wharton presents one of her favorite themes, the sacrifice of artistic, romantic impulses for family duty and societal respectability. Newland Archer, a young lawyer from one of New York's best families, thinks he is in love with the exotic Countess Ellen Olenska and even entertains the thought of leaving his wife for her, but when he learns that his wife May is pregnant, he abandons all hope of love and happiness and decides to stay with May. The difficulty of genuine human communication in the upper strata of society is an important theme in the Archer plot. Newland Archer lives in what Wharton calls "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." Most of the important personal communications between Archer and his wife are left unsaid. Many times Archer imagines what she is saying to him (or more complicated yet what she thinks he is saying to her), but of course Archer may be reading the hieroglyphics wrong. Because so little that is felt is actually expressed, Archer at times appears to be having an internal dialogue with himself.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released May 3, 2021
ISBN13 9798747537422
Publishers Independently Published
Pages 78
Dimensions 216 × 279 × 4 mm   ·   204 g
Language English  

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