The Age of Innocence

EDITH WHARTON

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• writer, and designer
• New York City
• Van Rensselaer family
• Governess
• Edward Robbins Wharton

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• Chevalier of the Legion of Honor
• Pulitzer Prize for literature
• Died of the stroke
• buried in France

INTERESTING FACFS

• Icy comment from Mom
• Notes of witty statement
• Correspondence
• with Henry James

fiction STORY

ROMANCE

SETTING

CHARACTERS

NEWLAND ARCHER

• protagonist
• lawyer
• gentleman
• willing to hear the advice

ELLEN OLENSKA

• unorthodox
• flippancy words

MAY WELLAND

• traditional woman
• fiancée

main plot

Favorite Quote
"The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!"

problems/challenges

• face Ellen
• pressure of May's family

CAPTURE MY ATTENTION

I RECOMMEND IT

• The society and customs
• during Gilded Age
• Different characters
• and personalities
• Struggle of tradition

Thank for your listening.