【正文】 nt, 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)。 There is a noticeable excitement when Mrs. Archer talks about her son?s marriage. “Even Mrs. Archer, who was seldom unduly pleased with human events, had been altogether glad of her son?s engagement”. “There was no better match in New York than May Welland, dear May is my ideal” (Wharton, 20xx)。 When May was in the act of announcing her engagement on the Beaufort?s annual ball, “A group of young men and girls were gathered about her, and there was much handclasping, laughing and pleasantry”(Wharton, 20xx). It is quite obvious to see that the upper class show great approval of the couple and wish their bination a lasting happy marriage. When Newland realizes the fact that “New York believed him to be Madame Olenska?s lover”, he feels like “a prisoner in the center of an armed camp”. May plans to hold a farewell party for Ellen which actually is a trick to eliminate Ellen from the tribe with the relatives and friends, but they “pretended to each other that they had never heard of, suspected, or imagined anything, and that occasion of the entertainment was simply May Archer?s natural desire to take an affectionate leave of her friend and cousin”(Wharton, 20xx). At the end of the novel May?s son Dallas judge his parents? marriage as follows “You never did ask each other anything, did you? And you never told each other anything. You just sat and watched each other, and guessed at what was going on underneath. A deafanddumb asylum, in fact!”(Wharton, 20xx). The words from a new generation are bold and unconventional, but they are just accurately cutting to the point. Newland and May?s marriage seems to be enviable and amazing, however, the love between the two is far from true love. Upper class? attitudes towards the relationship between Newland and Ellen Newland?s attitude towards his relationship with Ellen Ellen is also born in New York upper class, but she grows up in France and receives good education and free thought in Europe. Therefore, she has 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。 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。 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 t