Age Of Innocence Quotes

Question 1

“Women ought ________” - Archer

Answer 1

To be free. Free as we are.
(Individual Progression)

Question 2

“The real loneliness is ___________” - Ellen

Answer 2

Living among all these people who only ask to pretend.
(Falsity of New York Society)

Question 3

“She said she knew we were safe with you, because once ____________” - Dallas

Answer 3

when she asked you to, you’d given up the thing you most wanted.
(Sacrifice for social form)

Question 4

“With a shiver ____________ becoming what most ________” - about Archer

Answer 4

(1) Of foreboding, he saw his marriage
(2) Of the other marriages about him were.
(Scared of what the wrong marriage will become)

Question 5

“She had represented _________” - about May

Answer 5

peace, stability, comradeship.
(The social form isn’t always the best route. Changing ideas about what society should be based on)

Question 6

“It seems stupid to have _____________” - Ellen

Answer 6

discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.
(Critical of the attempts to make America like European countries)

Question 7

“Marriage is one _______” - about Archer

Answer 7

Long sacrifice.
(Ideals around marriage aren’t true)

Question 8

“And you never ___________. You just sat __________, and guessed at _________” - Dallas

Answer 8

(1) told each other anything
(2) and watched each other
(3) what was going on underneath.
(Critical of old New York society and form)

Question 9

“Pretty ___________” (about fanny Beaufort)

Answer 9

Amusing and accomplished, what more could you want.

Question 10

“Ellen, in spite of all her _________”

Answer 10

Opportunities and her privileges had become simply bohemian.

Question 11

“Our legislations favour __________”

Answer 11

Divorce, our social customs don’t.