Notes Taken:10/8/07
By chapter 23 Newland is disliking the dullness of marriage. His life and activities are dictated by their place in society. May is continually making references to what is the right thing to do. Life visiting her family in Newport is divided by what her parents think and how they believe people should act. Archer begins to fantacize about Countess Ellen. P. 182 "He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty." He began to believe Ellen was his escape from the boredom of the rest of his life.
By chapter 24 Ellen and Archer have admitted their feelings for each other and their mutual despair at their own circumstances. Marriage for both of them is a combination of form over substance, doing the right things expected of by society. P. 199 "But after a moment the sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well be half a world apart."
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