INNOCENT LOVE IN THE AGE OF VANITY ³ÂÁ¦ CLASS FIVE Edith Wharton¡¯s the Age of Innocence pride a vivid scene of ¡®vanity fair¡¯ in New York in the late 19th century. Through a tragic love story between Ellen Olenska and Newland Archer, the author revealed ¡°the old New York way of taking life ¡®without effusion of blood¡¯: the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered …showed first 75 words of 1152 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1152 total…become acceptable: He remembered a sneering prophecy of poor Lawrence Lefferts's, uttered years ago in that very room: "If things go on at this rate, our children will be marrying Beaufort's bastards." It was just what Archer's eldest son, the pride of his life, was doing; and nobody wondered or reproved. Well, Newland¡¯s son is more lucky than him. For the new age is came. But to Newland , all is too late. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**