【正文】 as active thinking and keen insight. There is a sense of freedom and rebellion in her all the time. 9 She is beautiful, sagacious, independent, and has more experience of life. She is full of artistic temperament and exoticism, just as Newland deeply perceives, she is more like yellow rosesthere was something too rich, too strong, in their fiery beauty. In Newland?s eye, there is no doubt that Ellen is different, “there was about her the mysterious authority of beauty, a sureness in the carriage of the head, the movement of the eyes, which, without being in the least theatrical”, and the unfortunate marriage leaves her a hint of maturity, “she was so quietquiet in her movements, her voice ,and the tones of her lowpitched voice”(Wharton, 20xx). It is no wonder that a handsome young man will be attracted by such a beautiful lady. After falling in love with Ellen, Newland unconsciously often makes parison between May and Ellen, and he finds that Ellen is his true and ideal lover. However, Newland has to take responsibility of his marriage, yet he still puts Ellen in his deep heart and secretly misses her. When he has chance to meet her again, he says “I was changed, till I saw you again”(Wharton, 20xx), and later he seeks in vain to elope with Ellen from New York and spend the whole life together. These things all show that Newland wants to keep Ellen around and cherishes the love with Ellen. Ellen?s attitude towards her relationship with Newland Ellen moves back to New York for her unhappy marriage to seek shelter from relatives and friends. New York, however, denies any scandal which will humiliate the upper class and shake the stereotypical conventions, so her returning back causes great disturbance. Newland seeks to protect her from the harm of others. He tells her what should do and say in New York. When he pays a visit to Ellen, she says that “There are only two people here who make me feel as if they understood what I mean and could explain things to me。 I?ve seen no young girl in New York so handsome and so intelligent”(Wharton, 20xx). 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, 20xx). 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 8 council”(Wharton, 20xx)。最后為結(jié)語(yǔ)，系統(tǒng)闡述文章的主旨內(nèi)涵。華頓本人及其作品。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。華頓是美國(guó)著名小說(shuō)家之一。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。 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 V upper class. The last part restates the aim of the thesis, and the conclusion of the thesis. Key Words: Edith Wharton。 you and Beaufort.”(Wharton, 20xx). She also thinks that “I felt there was no one as kind as you” (Wharton, 20xx). It shows that Ellen takes her relationship with Newland seriously. They own the same idea and both are attracted by each other。 yes, and I?m so glad” (Wharton, 20xx). Ellen is quite approved and feels happy for their bination, after all she thinks that “May is a darling。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)。 本文首先簡(jiǎn)要介紹 伊迪絲盡我所知，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。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。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。 old New York。 Ellen makes efforts to end her marriage, but after Newland?s persuasion of giving up divorce, she plans to take the advice just for her beloved. Moreover, when Newland asks her to elope with him and gets away from New York, 10 she holds the idea that “she should not break faith with the people who trusted her”(Wharton, 20xx) and does not want Newland to bear the disgrace of breaking the moral cultivation and abandoning his wife and unborn child, she refuses his demand and leaves for Europe alone. From the old Newland? eye, Ellen “had never gone back to her husband”(Wharton, 20xx), and that very year she says to Newland that “I can?t love you unless I give you up”(Wharton, 20xx) are the best evidences to prove her love