The Personalities of May and Ellen Illustrated in the Novel The Age of Innocence

In the novel "innocent era", two heroes are introduced in the first chapter of the opera house. Newland Archer, a highly respected New York attorney, his fiancé was visible above his seat to marry Welland Moon. Sitting beside her, he saw the plum mother and aunt. Next to him, he saw a woman familiar with him. She was Mei's cousin, Alan Olenska. These two women play an important role throughout the novel. Both May and Ellen have two different personality types.

"Allen and plum as new as" In the era of Innocence ", at the opening from the opera, we emphasized the conflict between the two opposing parties' discourse and persuade Alan · Newland and the view of the moon The woman's representative is "true woman". Newland first watched Ellen at the old school Mingott drama box, she appeared in (9), wearing a bold dress "women of the clothing empire" than the big New York fashion dress there. Ellen noticed attention, divorce and doubt whore and sitting at the same opera his fiancé Mo Welland, Newland got mad and said: "I do not want it ... it's gathering boxes A crowded attention New York man must sit between her mother and aunt and be his fiance "(9, my emphasis)

Explanation of new women's contradiction: Read Edith Wharton as an innocent era of Dialogue novel

In the topic of Edith Wharton's "Innocence era" sex and marriage (1920), an important argument tends to focus on plum and alan body, representing two contrasting images of women's identities: " Angel "and" Weird. "This article provides another way of reading while drawing the concept of Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogue fiction. In particular, it aims to study the complexity of many competing voices and women, marriage and divorce before the fiction eccentricity of the story that juxtaposes side by side, especially its interactive complexity

Explanation of new women's contradiction: Read Edith Wharton as an innocent era of Dialogue novel

At the end of the novel, people considered the promise of Allen's story. "It is still time for a very difficult innocence age to be seen as happy endings and novels" about Hermione · Lee, because it insults "showing people (especially women) not escape, whether or not, (580) In a sense, Lee is right: This novel relates to a woman who is being insulted and trying to escape, but it is a mistake to regard the end of this novel as inevitable pessimism.Alan, After putting it in such a rigid society, showing the heroine of struggle for survival, suppressing with the first marriage, in the repressive and limited society, finally she turns her The degree of freedom in Paris In addition to the novel, I showed determination to achieve her Ellen, but as freedom, I will increase the power as a feminist critic against society, let her depart To advance

Explanation of new women's contradiction: Read Edith Wharton as an innocent era of Dialogue novel