Age of Innocence Quotes Flashcards
What is the quote about Newland’s future?
‘He saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever going to happen’
What is Newland’s future described as?
As an endless emptiness
What is the quote about convention?
As natural to newline as all the other conventions upon which his life was wounded
How is New York described as a pyramid?
A slippery pyramid in which hardly a fissure had been made no foothold gained
What is the quote about how Ellen makes Newland feel?
Once again she had managed to make him feel stupidly conventional just when he thought he was flinging convention to the wind
Against what is Newland blundering?
Familiar prejudices and traditional points of view
What is Newland’s opinion of taste?
Few things seemed to Newland more awful than an offence against taste
What does Newland tell Ellen?
I want somehow to get away with you to a world where words like that, categories like this won’t exist
What does Newland say that expresses how he feels excited about Ellen?
Each time you happen to me all over again
What did May represent ?
She represented peace, stability, comradeship and a steadying sense of inescapable duty
What is the quote about her wedding dress?
Her torn muddy wedding dress dragging after her
What is the description of ‘new people’?
New people, whom new york was beginning to dread
How May’s youthfulness descried?
Indestructible
What does Ellen say about New York?
New York is such a labyrinth, I thought it was just straight up and down
What does Ellen say about loneliness?
The real loneliness is living amongst all these people who ask you only to pretend
