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Isabelle Borgé
Eleanor Savage is a woman with whom Amory falls in love during a summer trip to Maryland after the war. Eleanor lives with her grandfather in the countryside. She was born and raised in France was sent back to Baltimore after her mother’s death. After coming out as a debutante, Eleanor’s partying and free-spirited behavior offended her relatives, and they sent her to the countryside. Eleanor and Amory have a whirlwind romance, sharing a love of literature and poetry and frolicking in the countryside together. Eleanor is highly intelligent and critical of the status quo, especially the social construct of marriage and gender norms. During their last night together, Eleanor attempts suicide by riding her horse off a cliff but throws herself off at the last minute, which causes Amory to fall out of love with her. Eleanor’s beliefs, as well as the dissolution of their relationship, reinforce Amory’s skepticism and pessimism about love. Amory considers Eleanor his last “wild” romance, and he credits the end of their relationship with destroying “a further part of him that nothing could restore.”
Eleanor Savage Quotes in This Side of Paradise
The This Side of Paradise quotes below are all either spoken by Eleanor Savage or refer to Eleanor Savage. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Book 1, Chapter 4: Narcissus Off Duty
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She was immemorial…. Amory wasn’t good enough for Clara, Clara of ripply golden hair, but then no man was. Her goodness was above the prosy morals of the husband-seeker, apart from the dull literature of female virtue.
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Book 2, Chapter 2: Experiments in Convalescence
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Amory had loved Rosalind as he would never love another living person. She had taken the first flush of his youth and brought from his unplumbed depths tenderness that had surprised him, gentleness and unselfishness that he had never given to another creature. He had later love-affairs, but of a different sort: in those he went back to that, perhaps, more typical frame of mind, in which the girl became the mirror of a mood in him.
Book 2, Chapter 3: Young Irony
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Eleanor was, say, the last time that evil crept close to Amory under the mask of beauty.
“Rotten, rotten old world,” broke out Eleanor suddenly, “and the wretchedest thing of all is me—oh, why am I a girl? (…) Here I am with the brains to do everything, yet tied to the sinking ship of future matrimony.”
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Eleanor Savage Quotes in This Side of Paradise
The This Side of Paradise quotes below are all either spoken by Eleanor Savage or refer to Eleanor Savage. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Book 1, Chapter 4: Narcissus Off Duty
Quotes
She was immemorial…. Amory wasn’t good enough for Clara, Clara of ripply golden hair, but then no man was. Her goodness was above the prosy morals of the husband-seeker, apart from the dull literature of female virtue.
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Book 2, Chapter 2: Experiments in Convalescence
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Amory had loved Rosalind as he would never love another living person. She had taken the first flush of his youth and brought from his unplumbed depths tenderness that had surprised him, gentleness and unselfishness that he had never given to another creature. He had later love-affairs, but of a different sort: in those he went back to that, perhaps, more typical frame of mind, in which the girl became the mirror of a mood in him.
Book 2, Chapter 3: Young Irony
Quotes
Eleanor was, say, the last time that evil crept close to Amory under the mask of beauty.
“Rotten, rotten old world,” broke out Eleanor suddenly, “and the wretchedest thing of all is me—oh, why am I a girl? (…) Here I am with the brains to do everything, yet tied to the sinking ship of future matrimony.”
