【正文】 Ellen what seems irritates May, she said with a slight pout of impatience “why should we talk about Ellen tonight?”(Wharton,2004). The intimacy between the two girls has all gone. With the help of the upper class, May successfully expels Ellen out of New York city. Through the narration of Dallas, May knows the affair between her husband and Ellen from the beginning to the end, but she just smothers their affection under the disguise of smile and docility. Relatives and friends’ attitudes towards the relationship between Newland and EllenEllen’s desire for a divorce is totally contrary to the secular fashion of New York society, and it naturally causes a lot of dissatisfaction. Lovell Mingott family hold a formal banquet and invite friends to participate in to wele the return of the Countess Olenska, however, the invitations are received consistently refusal which shows the behavior of Ellen is pletely unacceptable in New York. “The upper class pay great attention to the “decent” principle of life and they are afraid of scandal than fear of disease”(Li Yinbo, 2011). They all think that divorce will bring humiliation to the whole family and social position. Besides, if Ellen gets divorce ,she has no economic ine for her to live on. Ellen’s behavior threatens the old conventions of the New York and manifests the conservatism and hypocrisy of upper class, so almost everyone insists that Ellen is stupid and they naturally have no good impression on such a treacherous lady. The love affair between Newland and Ellen has received consistently resistance again. The relatives and friends are well thought of Newland and May’s marriage, and when they perceive that Ellen is a threat of the happy couple, they do every effort to protect the marriage from harms. Actually, the New Yorkers can not bear a person like Ellen to disturb the stereotypical way of life, and they consider Ellen as a “disaster” to the old conventions and social customs. Finally the relatives and friends successfully expel Ellen out of the New York together with May, and Ellen lives the rest of her life alone in Europe. Chapter 3 Analyzing the Features of “Old New York” As one member of the upper class in New York, Wharton lets the outsiders peep into the whole picture of the Gilded Age New York. The greatest thing is that she not only showed us the upper class what they eat, what they play, but also exposed the sophisticated social skills under the elegance and the slightly paranoid persistence of social customs. By using the eloquence of irony and contrast, Wharton revealed the psychology of the characters when they were confronted with difficult choices and stripped the disguise of etiquette manners, exposing the essence that “old New Yorker” tried to hide. Here, the features of the old New York society will be stated from three aspects. The conservatism of “old New York”People39。 I’ve seen no young girl in New York so handsome and so intelligent”(Wharton, 2004). When she falls in love with Newland, she never ever thinks to own him, she tries her best to persuade Newland giving up his crazy idea. She promises to live with granny Mrs. Mingott because she thinks that can be “safer from doing irreparable harm” to others. When Newland keeps asking the solution to solve their problem, Ellen hazards to say that “shall I e once to you, and then go home”(Wharton, 2004). On hearing the news that May is pregnant, she wants to end up the relationship with Newland with a firm hand by moving to Europe. In a word, in order not to hurt the ones they love, to maintain her cousin’s marriage, and to make a plete family for the baby to be born, Ellen chooses to go to Europe and spend the rest of her life there alone. Ellen loves Newland too, but her love is filled with unselfish affection. Relatives and friends’ attitudes towards the relationship between Newland and May Newland and May’s marriage is made in heaven, and it is convinced by the attitudes of people around them. Almost everyone delivers great congratulation to their bination. When the betrothed couple pay a visit to the relatives after their engagement, old Mrs. Mingott was “delighted with the engagement, which, being long foreseen by watchful relatives, had been carefully passed upon in family council”(Wharton, 2004)。 old New York。最后為結(jié)語(yǔ)，系統(tǒng)闡述文章的主旨內(nèi)涵。年輕儒雅的紐蘭深陷在遵守社會(huì)規(guī)范和追求真愛(ài)的兩難境地，熱情奔放的埃倫搖擺于擺脫婚姻的枷鎖與聆聽(tīng)真情的吶喊之間，而天真純潔的梅則致力于維護(hù)自己的婚姻和保全虛妄的社會(huì)地位。華頓本人及其作品。她一生創(chuàng)作出大量杰出作品，其中《純真年代》詮釋了華頓一生的歷程，濃縮了她思想的精髓。對(duì)本研究提供過(guò)幫助和做出過(guò)貢獻(xiàn)的個(gè)人或集體，均已在文中作了明確的說(shuō)明并表示了謝意。盡我所知，除文中特別加以標(biāo)注和致謝的地方外，不包含其他人或組織已經(jīng)發(fā)表或公布過(guò)的研究成果，也不包含我為獲得安陽(yáng)工學(xué)院及其它教育機(jī)構(gòu)的學(xué)位或?qū)W歷而使用過(guò)的材料。華頓是美國(guó)著名小說(shuō)家之一。本文首先簡(jiǎn)要介紹伊迪絲接著主要闡述紐約上流社會(huì)對(duì)三位主人公間關(guān)系的看法。通過(guò)分析小說(shuō)主要人物間的關(guān)系，以及親戚朋友和他們自身對(duì)其關(guān)系的看法及他們的最終選擇，不難看出紐約上流社會(huì)保守、虛偽和勢(shì)利的特點(diǎn)。 Passionate Ellen Olenska’s dilemma in the marriage crisis with her husband and her affair with Newland, while innocent May’s struggle in maintaining her marriage and fallacious social position. However, their relatives and friends try everything they can to expel Ellen back to Europe together with May in order to protect family reputation. All these seeming surface plots actually are the defense against the conventions and human apathy. Chapter 3 is the backbone of the thesis, aiming to analyze the social characters of the “Old New York”. By analyzing the upper class’ attitudes towards the relationship among the three major characters and their choices, it is easy to see that the conservatism, hypocrisy and snobbism of the upper class. The last part restates the aim of the thesis, and the conclusion of the thesis. Key Words: Edith Wharton。 yes, and I’m so glad” (Wharton, 2004). Ellen is quite approved and feels happy for their bination, after all she thinks that “May is a darling。 you and Beaufort.”(Wharton, 2004). She also thinks that “I felt there was no one as kind as you” (Wharton, 2004). It shows that Ellen takes her relationship with Newland seriously. 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