Category: Book The Age Of Innocence

The Age of Innocence The Age of Innocence is an ironic title. No one in the entire society described in the book is innocent at all. They are all naïve but not one of them is innocent, they are all liars, hypocrites, and /or fake. The entire society that Newland Archer, the main character, lives…

At the beginning of the story, in January in 1870s, we meet the young attorney named Newland Archer, who possesses all the virtues of a proper gentleman. He is going to announce his engagement to not less virtuous May Welland on the party that will be held soon in the Mingott-family opera box. This is…