Would someone explain to me why Archer does not go up to see Ellen in the ending of "The Age of Innocence"? Is it because Archer's son told him that his mother said, on her deathbed, that she asked Archer to give up the one thing he cared most about and that Archer did. Archer told his son that she never asked him. I think it was May reaching out from the grave to , once again, make Archer feel guilty and smother the last bit of independent feeling and thought out of Archer. What do you think? I really thought May was a monster disguised as the innocent, adoring wife and representative of the manners and mores of the age. The ending left me so upset. Why didn't Archer go up to finally be with Ellen?
2006-09-15 21:36:49 · 2 answers · asked by Margo 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Set amid the stifled world of New York high society during the 1870s, an aristocratic lawyer struggles with his growing passion for his fiancee's beautiful cousin, an expatriate countess who has abandoned her marriage.
2006-09-23 10:15:59 · answer #1 · answered by fuchi fuchi fea fea 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because that is what they do in movies.
Not so "innocent" after all.
2006-09-16 12:39:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋