In the summer of her maturation, Charity falls in love with a stranger, becomes pregnant, is abandoned by her seducer and ultimately marries the figure of security against which she has been struggling to rebel for most of the novel. Like Newland, Charity eats from the fruit of what which might have been before circumstances enforce upon her a tepid acceptance of which must be settled for.
Over the course of four months in North Dormer, Massachusetts, a teenage girl named Charity Royall sadly follows in the footsteps of Newland Archer. In 1917 Edith Wharton moved out of her fictional comfort zone of life among the New York City elite and took her profound imagination to New England in the novel Summer.
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