age of innocence, quotes Flashcards
totem terrors
“inscrutable totem terrors that ruled the destinies of his forefathers”
possessorship
“thrill of possessorship”- Newland about May
the mingotts
“I didn’t think the Mingotts would have tried it on” - Silterton Jackson
beauty, justified, excused
“beauty- a gift which, in the eyes of NY, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings”
taste
“few things seemed to NA more awful than lack of ‘taste’”
implications, delicacies
“an atmosphere of faint implications and pale delicacies”- what NY society was
always
“she was always going to understand, she was always going to say the right thing”- about May
strange
“strange foreign woman”- about Ellen
everybody
“everyone in NY has always known everybody”- Mrs Mingott about NY
serene
“Mrs Archers serene unimaginativeness rested easily in the accepted and familiar”
free, irritated, terrific consequences
“women ought to be free- as free as we are” “a discovery that he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences”
