The Age of Innocence: resumen de Part XXVI
Part XXVI de 34 · Book 2 · 14 min para leer el part
In XXVI, Newland Archer hears Thanksgiving gossip about social change, Beaufort’s threatened failure, and Ellen’s reduced income, then angrily challenges suggestions that Beaufort supports her. At home, he proposes a business trip to Washington, and May’s pointed encouragement to visit Ellen makes him recognize her awareness and her family’s pressure.
Qué sucede
- At Mrs. Archer’s Thanksgiving dinner, guests discuss changing fashions, weakening social boundaries, and rumors of Beaufort’s financial misconduct.
- The conversation turns to Ellen’s refusal to rejoin her husband and her family’s disapproval, while May blushes.
- Alone with Archer, Sillerton Jackson connects Ellen’s reduced allowance and Medora Manson’s investments with Beaufort’s possible collapse.
- Archer angrily rejects the insinuations about Ellen, then ends the conversation rather than quarrel with his mother’s guest.
- At home, Archer announces a possible Washington business trip, and May urges him to visit Ellen.
- Archer understands May’s encouragement as a warning that she recognizes his intentions and supports the family’s pressure on Ellen.
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May’s apparently friendly suggestion reveals the tension beneath their conversation. Archer understands it as recognition of his intentions and support for pressure on Ellen.
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According to Jackson, what happens when Ellen refuses to return to her husband?
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