AGE OF INNOCENCE Critics

Question 1

McDowell AOI Archer’s perception of May Wellend

Answer 1

“Archer’s egocentric temperament, which limits his limits his imagination, blinds him from seeing May as a woman instead of a stereotype”

Question 2

Stephen Orgel Archer + Ellen’s relationship

Answer 2

“Archer and Ellen’s passion can exist only as it is as not merely unconsummated but unrealised”

Question 3

Max Herzberg Archer and May Social Regulation Relationship

Answer 3

“Archer and May’s marriage is a bound by tribal code of the elite”

Question 4

Ammons - Archer’s characterisation social regulation

Answer 4

“Archer is product of convention”

Question 5

Franzen Archer isolated character

Answer 5

“Archer is an isolated misfit who is nevertheless inextricably enmeshed in the societal conventions of old New York”

Question 6

Franzen Archer isolated character

Answer 6

“Archer is an isolated misfit who is nevertheless inextricably enmeshed in the societal conventions of old New York”

Question 7

Lloyd Eby Whaton’s tribal perceptions of AOI

Answer 7

” Wharton wrote about tribes…the way they BEND,MOULD CONFORM and even BREAK individuals

Question 8

Sara Alegre -Ellen characterisation

Answer 8

“Ellen is an exception outside the realm of social values