Status Updates From L'età dell'innocenza

“The silence that followed lay on them with the weight of things final and irrevocable. It seemed to Archer to be crushing him down like his own grave-stone; in all the wide future he saw nothing that would ever lift that load from his heart.” (Wharton 153)

The forbidden love
Causing pain for all involved
But is it worth it?

Have to remember a secretary would be a man in this time. Haha

So far, Newland Archer is engaged to May, but May intentionally makes the engagement longer. Newland says, "She thinks, in short, I want to marry her at once to get away from some one that I-care for more" (Wharton 78). I predict that this "someone" is Ellen and that Ellen has just been blind to all of the signs of Newland's feelings for her. Ultimately, making his concerns more complicated and making the plot messy.