... it would be very difficult to place the drama, as the roads and scenery around them: industrial areas, highway toll points, the usual roadway scene, symbolising ordinary life, look much like any other part of America. The majority of shots are of real life: taken through the car's side window or windscreen, a driver ... on a bumpy road. The effect of these things is that a strong impression is given of New York as a fast moving place, where, however, ordinary people lead their ordinary lives. The man in the car, for example, seems to be on his way home from work. The fact that he may wo...

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... the house, and whether it is suitable to have the bedroom and the living room on the same floor. When Ellen suggest that Newland visits her, which in another social context would be perfectly acceptable, it is clear that in this culture, such a meeting would be unheard-of. In chapter five, there is considerable irony in the discussion on freedom which ... Luyden, the lower echelons of the social strata are obliged to accept her. Wharton portrays the members of these ruling families' as ageless and almost immortal, in comparison to the ordinary mortals such as Newland and Ellen, who are ...

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