Daniel Day-Lewis
Newland Archer
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Aug 14, 2005 · The story: Newland Archer (Daniel Day Lewis) is planning a proper marriage to the respectable society virgin May Welland ( Winona Ryder ). Then the Countess Ellen Olenska ( Michelle Pfeiffer) returns to New York, and her presence stirs him beyond all measure. Ellen is an American, May's cousin, who unwisely married a Polish count.
Chapter 1. Literary devices: Genre. Mood. Setting. Style. Tone. View all. The novel opens with Newland Archer attending the opera, where New York society often gathers. Just that afternoon, May Welland has agreed to marry him. Archer notices a strange woman in May’s opera box and realizes that it’s her cousin, Ellen Olenska.
The Age of Innocence, novel by Edith Wharton, published in 1920. The work presents a picture of upper-class New York society in the late 19th century. The story is presented as a kind of anthropological study of this society through references to the families and their activities as tribal.
Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people “dreaded scandal more than disease.” This is Newland Archer’s world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland.
Twenty-five years pass. In that time, the Archers have had three children and May has died from pneumonia. Now Archer's son convinces him to travel to France. There, they arrange to visit the Countess Olenska at her Paris apartment.
Rated: 5/5 • Aug 12, 2023. Oct 15, 2022. Wealthy lawyer Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis) is engaged to sweet socialite May Welland (Winona Ryder) in 1870s New York. On the surface, it is a ...
The Age of Innocence. Summaries. A tale of nineteenth-century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
