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“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?
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The forbidden love
Causing pain for all involved
But is it worth it?
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Newland Archer is engaged to May Welland, but things get complicated when May's cousin Ellen comes back to NY. Ellen is more independent and doesn't follow the same social rules as the others, which makes Newland start questioning things he was certain about. "'Women ought to be free- as free as we are,'" (Wharton 44). This quote shows Newland, who before did not care about women, considering women equal to him.
— Sep 14, 2026 08:14PM