Comparing Archer's Affair With Olenska

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Conclusion The story is said to be largely based on the authors life since she grew up with these types of circumstances. Archer to the reader seems to be in control of everything in his life but this is not true it seems that he was the most naïve character in the whole story despite being the narrator of it. He never realized that May knew for most of the book that his feelings lay with her cousin instead of her. It isn’t until his son Dallas tells him that on her death bed she confessed to knowing all about Archers sacrifice. Although his views are different and more open he still believed that if he were to have an affair with Olenska it would have been accepted showing that he was never realistic in this sense. The society in which they

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