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The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence is a novel by Edith Wharton, and Edith Wharton was the first woman won the Pulitzer Prize.The story was happened in New York City's upper cla in the 1870s, and told us a story of love triangle.Newland Archer is a young, popular, succeful lawyer.Before he meets Ellen Olenska, his life has never changed, and always has been filled with the old culture and customs.But all of that have been changed.Ellen has fled from her unhappy marriage and has returned to America.But she fell in love with Newland.So Ellen makes him find the new and wrong things in upper cla.At one time, Newland had lost himself in his love to Ellen and wanted to elope with her.But after his wife’s pregnancy, he immediately decides to disappear from his life and leave America.But Newland still surrenders to the society, find the “right” way to continue his own lift, and never out of loyalty to their marriage.Ellen is a typical rebel of that society;she doesn’t know all the rules of Old New York’s upper-cla.And, she hates all things in a boring life;the most important one is a marriage without love.However, those rules destined the impoibility between she and Newland’s love.They can't get rid of the bondage of the society, their love also have no place to survival.They think and consideration too much for each other.At last, they will mi each other.Another major character of this story, May is different from the above two person.She smile all the time, always know what to do and how to do.At the first, she engaged to Newland.After the marriage, when she suspects Newland is Ellen's lover, May has always pretends to be happy before society.She always knew that her husband love with others, but she loves her husband.In the end she has used her unborn kid to keep her husband.May always think she will win in this love battle because of the whole society behind her.After reading this novel, I think that Newland is a poor guy.He can’t love the woman which he loves.He must be observing the rules of society.If he becomes like Ellen, he will lose everything that he has built his own foundations in upper cla in New York.In the end, he is neither, nor is he himself.However, under this society, they are all victims, not only Newland but also May and Ellen.This is the biggest tragedy in the 1870s’ New York.I am very happy to born in this century, because I can choose my own love and I will cherish the happy time.
