![]() ![]() Set in 1982, The Marriage Plot revolves around three characters who are caught in a kind of love triangle. ![]() Yet set against this thesis, Eugenides does precisely what the book says is no longer possible - he writes a story that keeps you wondering whom the heroine will end up with. He lectures that the rise of sexual liberation and divorce led to the elimination of the very plot device that made the Victorian novel, well, Victorian: whether or not the main characters were going to get married. His 1993 novel, The Virgin Suicides, was adapted for film by director Sofia Coppola.Įarly in Jeffrey Eugenides' new book, The Marriage Plot, an English professor declares that gender equality ruined the modern novel. Jeffrey Eugenides is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex. ![]()
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