Director: Martin Scorsese
Writer: Edith Wharton
Newland Archer:
He lives with his widowed mother and his unmarried sister, and is engaged to May Welland. He fancies himself erudite and well-educated, not realizing how much his own thoughts and experiences are limited by his immediate environment.
May:
May represents the sum of her New York society upbringing, and is beautiful, proper, and innocent. She is determined to be a perfect wife to Newland. May seems childlike and carefree, yet she is also knowledgeable about the complexities of relationships than Newland is
Ellen Olenska:
Ellen is May's mysterious cousin. She Returned to New York to seek a divorce and her situation is scandalous and risks the good name of her family. She represents sophistication, worldliness, and tragedy.
Chapter 1 : The Age of Innocence
On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nillsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York.
Through there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances “above the Forties,” of a new Opera House which should complete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter in the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy. Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the “new people” whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to; and the sentimental clung to it for its historic associations, and the musical for its excellent acoustics, always so problematic a quality in halls built for the hearing of music.
It was Madame Nilsson’s first appearance that winter, and what the diary press had already learned to describe as “an exceptionally brilliant audience” had gathered to hear her, transported through the slippery, snowy streets in private broughams, in the spacious family landau, or in the humbler but more convenient “Brown coup
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