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- Miss Chrisman, is she coming into our class today?
- Hello class! I hope you all had a great weekend! I have a very exciting lesson planned for us today! For the past week and a half, we have been analyzing the book, “The Age of Innocence”, and I happened to get ahold of the author to tell us some more things about the book today!
- That’s great question. I used actually two different tones in this book. One being ironic and the other being nostalgic. The tone is ironic because it lets us know just how self-important and insular the world of New York society was in the 1870’s and how it still is today. The tone is also nostalgic by highlighting the past as a time when people were kind, sincere, and honest with one another. I wanted to show New York City as undeveloped and have a kind of civic pride. So, when I talk about things in my book such as carriage rides and strolls around Central Park, I was hoping to spark a hint of nostalgia.
- Unfortunately, Miss Wharton will not be coming into the class today. With everything going on with covid, we will be talking to her over Zoom so we can continue to follow guidelines accordingly.
- That is an awesome question. May represented innocence, like a lily, a pure white flower. She was the perfect embodiment of the ideal female living in New York high society; she is pure, innocent, and unfailingly polite. While you might think that she is naïve, she catches on very quickly that Archer has fallen in love with Ellen yet remains a faithful and loving wife. On the other hand, Ellen was almost the exact opposite. She didn’t care how she talked to people, what she wore, and didn’t rely on a man after she was cheated on and left the man. Although they appear in the same social class at the end of the 19th century, they could not be more different in nature, their behavior in the high-class society, and in the values, they stand for.
- I am great! I am so happy that you all are reading my book and thought of contacting me!
- Hi Edith! How are you today?
- I will! Hi Miss Wharton! What tone did you use most in “The Age of Innocence”?
- Of course! I wanted my students to really get a behind the author perspective when reading your book. I’m going to open up the floor to my students now. I had them come up with three different questions but of course we will not get to go through them all. Now... Who wants to go first?
- Miss Wharton, why did you make May Welland and Ellen Olenska so different from each other?
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