Characterization of Lorin Boulger

Mrs. Lorin Boulger is an extremely influential member of the New York high society.

She is an ambassadress and has a high position which for example empowers her

to decide about Wilbour Barkley´s relocation to an embassy in Europe.

Belonging to the older generation of New Yorkers, Lorin Boulger represents the “old”

New York with a moral code in which divorce is a reason for social ostracism.

Through her complaisant behavior towards Leila on one hand and her denying

behavior towards Mrs. Lidcote on the other hand, she perfectly mirrors the

phenomenon that the new moral code only applies to the new generation and not to

the old one.