The story told us Newland Archer is a young, popular, successful lawyer living with his mother and sister in an elegant New York City house,Mrs. Manson Mingott the grandmother to Ellen and May,Mrs. Welland is May's mother.May Welland raised to be a perfect wife and mother.Ellen Olenska is May's cousin and Mrs. Manson Mingott's granddaughter.
Into to the narrow social world of new york in the 1870s comes countess Ellen Olenska,surounded by shocked whispers about her failed marriage to a rich Polish Count.A woman who leaves her husband can never be accepted in polite society. ( )

Upper-Intermediate Early,