The Age Of Innocence, By Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton in the novel, “ The Age of Innocence”, illustrates a young wealthy lawyer who degress from his life plans to marry May Welland by becoming infatuated with Countess Ellen Olenska, who has separated from her European husband. Eventually, Archer Newland and lady Olenska become devotedly in love with one another. The forbidden love is displayed as “innocence”; this so called innocence can be portrayed as young girl with lovely little pigtails that can not fulfill any harm, but in reality that innocence is a gordian knot filled with moralistic morals,firm social variations, ideology of feminine chastity, traditions, and opposition of anything that has to do with European and American society. The author’s purpose of portraying copious morals and social variation is to illustrate the reckless emotions all characters within the novel are experiencing. To commence, Wharton manages to portray the intelligence of the characters within the novel. The story's protagonist is a young, popular, successful lawyer living with his mother and sister in an elegant New York City house. Since childhood, his life has been shaped by the customs and expectations of upper-class New York City society. His
Until the Van der Luydens come to her rescue, society refuses to welcome Ellen because she is a woman who has left her husband. If a person considers breaking the code, the eyes of society are everywhere. When Newland is out for a walk and sees Ellen, he worries about the Lefferts and Chivers who happen to see them. Because Newland has been in on many of the smoking gatherings of his fellow men, he knows the judgments that will arise about his meeting with Ellen. Despite that knowledge .Ignoring the code does not work, this is shown because Ellen pays a price, because the social code enforces such rules as are good for society, personal freedom is sacrificed. Newland cannot follow his passion, he must do his