Mind Map of The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence mind map is drama-based novel by Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence was released in 1920. The piece depicts upper-class society in late-nineteenth-century New York. Through references to the families and their actions as tribal, the novel is portrayed as a form of anthropological study of this civilization. The work, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1921, was written in the jumbled aftermath of World War I, which Edith Wharton witnessed firsthand in Paris. The conflicted protagonist, Newland Archer, represents the pinnacle of good breeding. In post-Civil War New York, he is the ultimate insider. Countess Ellen Olenska, May's cousin and a former member of their circle, has been living in the Europe but has left her husband, a cruel Polish nobleman, under mysterious circumstances and returned to her family's New York milieu. Ted has arranged for them to visit Countess Olenska there. Archer has not seen her in over 25 years. Ted confides to his father that May had confessed on her deathbed that. She knew we were safe with you, always would be. Because once, when she asked you to, you gave up the thing you wanted most." Archer responds, "She never asked me." That evening outside the countess' apartment, Archer sends his son alone to visit her.

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