Ade’s Reviews > The Age of Innocence > Status Update

‘Too different to care about the things it cared about’
- Madame Olenska re. NY Society

‘He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless sentimental adventures were ending in premature disgust; and she had represented peace, stability, comradeship, and the steadying sense of an unescapable duty.‘
Times haven’t changed.

‘Don’t you see? I can’t love you unless I give you up.’
The frustration of this line!

‘He wondered about what age nice women began to speak for themselves’

‘Everything may be labelled, but everybody is not.’

Having the status quo drilled into me really.

Scene being set
1870s