![]() His story alternates with that of Mitchell Grammaticus, the third point in the love triangle, who travels the world while obsessing in equal measure about Madeleine and organized religion. ![]() ![]() There, he works as a research grudge while alternately recovering from and regressing towards a state of mental imbalance. Leonard, a manic depressive biologist, is the focus of the next section of the book, which brings the two lovers to Cape Cod. Eugenides weaves together Madeleine’s romantic obsessions with her literary ones, as evoked by her relationship with Barthes’ A Lovers Discourse, a book that both broadens and disrupts her love affair with Leonard Bankhead. ![]() Oh, how I recognized her! Perhaps because of my identification with the character as she navigates advanced literary seminars, I found the first section of the novel deeply satisfying and amusing. Madeleine Hanna is a Ivy League English major, a lit elitist who revels in Victorian narrative and abstruse literary theory. Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Marriage Plot explores the interwoven lives of three college friends in their first year out of Brown University, in the early ‘80s. ![]() Posted by Justine Solomons on 29 June 2012, in Recommendations ![]()
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