Literary analysis explores character meetings in classic novels, suggesting new narrative possibilities.
On rereading The Age of Innocence and feeling my old familiar tenderness for Newland Archer, it struck me that he bore the same last name as Henry James’s Isabel Archer. I knew immediately that I wanted to bring these two characters together. So I contrived a meeting that would reshape the destiny of each.
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Joan Hinde Stewart (2026) studied this question.
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