![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In particular, it is difficult to see why Mitchell pines after Madeline, especially when she mostly treats him like a doormat, as she doesn’t seem to have any likeable or even defining features. And it’s true that they are a bit… meh… (for want of a better word). The complaint that I’ve heard most about ‘The Marriage Plot’ was that the characters are not interesting enough for the reader to really care about what happens to them. (Unlike Madeline, my graduation day simply involved a lot of standing around in overheated rooms, posing for photographs I didn’t want taken and trying not to trip over my robes. ![]() Set in 1982, the story follows Brown University student Madeline Hanna, an English major writing a thesis on ‘the marriage plot’ of 19th century novels and the love triangle between herself, Mitchell Grammaticus and Leonard Bankhead before and after graduation. I thought it would be appropriate to read it now given that I had my graduation ceremony recently and this is the event where the novel starts. Even though I have read some very mixed reviews for ‘The Marriage Plot’ by Jeffrey Eugenides, I have still been really looking forward to reading it for months. ![]()
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