![]() ![]() All is not lost for Archer, though while he works as a lawyer for much of the book (without love or ambition for his job), he gives in somewhat to his attraction to the intellectual life and finds fulfillment in a life of public service, despite that public service is considered to be beneath his class. He wants to desert his wife and run away with Ellen, but he ultimately lives a somewhat average life with May. A car filled with stolen items from a far-flung two state burglary spree. ![]() ![]() A high-end stolen car is discovered in Vermont. ![]() While knowing Ellen makes Archer begin to dread living the same dull life that he sees everyone else living, he never manages to fully break away from his conventional upbringing. In Archer Mayor's Fall Guy, a body found in the trunk of a stolen car leads Joe Gunther and his team to crucial evidence in an infamous unsolved case from years past. He becomes more compassionate and open-minded and he begins to perceive the hypocrisy of those around him. However, as he falls in love with Ellen and watches how society scorns her scandalous background, Archer begins to question the rules that have governed his life. To Archer, May represents the conventional and respectable New York life. Archer initially subscribes to the conventions of New York society without question he has grown up with these conventions, and nobody respectable dares to flout them. The novel opens with his engagement to May Welland, whom he eventually marries, but he also falls in love with May’s cousin, Ellen Olenska. Archer, a young gentleman of New York high society, is the protagonist of The Age of Innocence. ![]()
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