By giving us a graspable DFW character, Eugenides saves his book and trumpets the merits of his realistic style. that this one references to really "get" everything Eugenides is trying to do here. "You have to catch all the subtleties for me, don't you? They suffer the machinations of reality television, pursuing — along with several other women, often inebriated — the promise of happily ever after. Boy and girl marry, etc., etc., etc. Last season, “The Bachelor” was, however, a fairy tale interrupted. Well, let's just say that DFW doesn't get the girl. By the 21st century the nature of marriage in Western countries—particularly with regard to the significance of procreation and the ease of divorce—had begun to change. And those who have suffered depression probably feel there’s not a lot to discuss. The novel isn’t really concerned with matrimony or the stories we tell about it, and the title, the opening glance at Madeleine’s library and the intermittent talk of books come across as attempts to impose an exogenous meaning. Why couldn’t he escape? You made me care about these twenty-something white college kids despite myself. Masterful on many levels. I loved how JE wrote a novel of ideas and yet imbued it with such heart. Photograph by Karen Yamuachi/Wikipedia. She had her hand in the back pocket of his jeans. But The Marriage Plot is pretentious. The character of Mitchell, who goes on a post-college spiritual quest to India, and who shares many biographical details with Eugenides, is pleasant but predictable. I buy into the notion that a man or woman can find love among 25 tanned and extremely fit potential suitors, in a mere matter of weeks, as long as the courtship is, unlike the revolution, televised. Eugenides presents Leonard’s case history from Leonard’s own perspective. In Western societies love between spouses came to be associated with marriage, but even in Western cultures (as the novels of writers such as Henry James and Edith Wharton attest) romantic love was not the primary motive for matrimony in most eras, and one’s marriage partner was carefully chosen. She must wait for the hand of a man who is fooled not once but twice before he finds her. That's the way people are, and the way life goes. Of course there’s no real answer to why DFW committed suicide. Juan Pablo himself refused to be Prince Charming, resisting, despite pressure from the show’s host, to say that he loved the woman he chose. Omissions? He’s David Foster Wallace. Was the section about Mitchell in India bathing the man at the hospice published as a short story in the New Yorker in, like, 07? Would a vagina-shaped Apollo 11 have made it to the moon? Set in a college town in the Eighties, it appeals to those of us who majored in literature or did post grad studies. Get exclusive access to content from our 1768 First Edition with your subscription. Many of the young women, in their early to mid-20s, plaintively say, “I’m never going to find anyone” — a lament that is a bit hard to take from someone who would have trouble renting a car. It was the stupidity of all normal people. She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read. Post-1980 deconstructionist criticism has highlighted how the plot was a profitable publishing and ideological production that served to ensure the ascendancy of the middle class. In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. For example, I initially found Madeline to be fairly thinly rendered in comparison to the more fully fleshed out intellectual and emotional lives of her male counterparts, but by the end I thought that might be part of the point (ie. But Eugenides, more than any other writer so far, helps answer the question that pains fans of DFW: Why did he kill himself? When the forms of communication with outside groups are limited, endogamous marriage is a natural consequence. Before the passing of the 1882 Married Property Act, when a woman got married her wealth was passed to her husband. He wanted women to love him, all women, beginning with his mother and going on from there. I mute my feminism. https://www.britannica.com/topic/marriage. Boy and girl fall in love. During the course of the novel she is concerned with the writing of her undergraduate thesis, which revolves around the concept of "the marriage plot" in the 19th century novel. Th… [She became empowered by choosing not to be single and get a Masters? I saw a side to him that I didn’t really like, and the whole night was just a disaster.” She, too, left the show. We stumble through it, thinking we are somehow in control, and it's what happens nevertheless while we are furiously busy making other plans, or simply fretting about making up our minds.
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