These feelings of boredom stemmed from Newland’s yearning to explore. He was like a tiger caged at the zoo. An instinct inside him made him want to run free, but the oppressive bars of society continually held him back.Newland was much more emotional than the rest of his group he believed that a person should act on their feelings rather than on what they thought society would think. It took him a while to realize this but through his unfounded love these beliefs rose to the surface of his soul. At heart he was a hopeless romantic that would act on his emotional urges at the whim of his lover or the emotions he would feel. He spoke this proposal of running away to the countess Ellen, “Where we shall be simply two human beings who love each other, who are the whole of life to each other; and nothing else on earth will matter. (290)”The boring gossip of old cronies where no use to amuse Newland. The wife Newland had chosen to be with soon put forth her true colors, a replica of everything he hated, had been formed into the shape of his newly designated wife. May lived and breathed proper New York. Conformity was all she cared about and Newland did not wish to conform, this caused his soul to yearn to be free with an even greater drive.Everything that Ellen was Newland longed to be, free of caring about what people thought and what people said. On the outside he conformed to everything he was supposed to, but on the inside he was a rebel that had ideas far different than the rest of his social circle....
