Wharton 194. By seeing the above proof, Ellen is considered an independent woman.
4. Artistic
Ellen’s childhood reveals that she is raised to love and appreciate arts. She is good at various artistic disciplines. When Ellen is a little girl, her aunt named
Medora Manson takes her to Europe to live there. In Europe, little Ellen gets an art lesson which includes dancing, drawing, playing piano and singing. It is also a
common custom of the Victorian Era that girls are trained with such arts for marriage preparation in order to attract their future husband. The quotation below
shows Ellen character’s through her past life. …..possessed outlandish arts, such as dancing a Spanish shawl dance and
singing Neapolitan love-songs to a guitar. Under the direction of her aunt… the little girl received an expensive but incoherent education,
which included drawing from the model, a thing never dreamed of before, and playing the piano in quintets with professional musicians
Wharton 48.
Ellen is lucky that she has a proper art education. As she is grown up, Ellen starts to appreciate and enjoy arts in her leisure time. From Mrs. Struthers’s
speech, it can be seen that Ellen adores music as she is also a pianist who likes to be amused as well. She is interested in enjoying a new sense of art which is
performed by a pianist she has not seen before. And the Duke tells me you like music--didnt you, Duke? Youre a pianist
yourself, I believe? Well, do you want to hear Sarasate play tomorrow evening at my house? You know Ive something going on every Sunday
evening--its the day when New York doesnt know what to do with itself, and so I say to it: `Come and be amused. And the Duke thought youd be
tempted by Sarasate Wharton 62.
Her manner to enjoy music like she used to do in Europe is still present even though Ellen already moves to New York. It shows that Ellen wants to feel
comfortable living and doing what she likes in New York. Besides having a good sense of music, Ellen is also clever at arranging
flowers and a drawing room. It is proven by Mr. van Der Luyden’s direct comment on how he is astonished by Ellen’s talent of art.
She has a real gift for arranging flowers. I had sent her a few carnations from Skuytercliff, and I was astonished. Instead of massing them in big
bunches as our head-gardener does, she had scattered them about loosely, here and there . . . I cant say how. The Duke had told me: he said: `Go and
see how cleverly shes arranged her drawing-room. And she has Wharton 73.
Mr. Van der Luyden is told by The Duke that Ellen is also excellent in decorating a drawing room. He desires to see it by himself. Furthermore he admires the way
Ellen decorates his garden. She is talented in arranging flowers that no one can. It makes her as an admirable woman in New York. Some New York gentlemen
adore Ellen because of her excellent artistic sense. One of the gentlemen is Dr. Carver who states that poetry and art are the breath of Ellen’s life. From the
quotations above, it can be concluded that Ellen is one of an artistic woman.
5. Eccentric
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