The story of a love triangle at Brown in the 1980s and transition to post grad life. Madeline is the English major daughter of a Conservative small college president in Maryland. Mitchell, a sprititual Greek American from the Detroit area. Leonard is a brilliant scientific mind from a broken home in Portland, Oregon. The relationship between these three, primarily between the men and Madeline as the center point is the story, during their four years at Brown, and the year after they graduate, is the story. The story is clearly well researched and filled with details and the character’s thoughts on subjects from classics of literature, to religious and philosphical thought, to scientific research of the early 1980s. It also describes in the era’s terms one person’s struggles with manic depression, now more commonly referred to a bi-polar disorder. Because Eugenides has also created a novel of class differences between the characters I empathized with the struggles while acknowledging how different the experiences are for those afflicted between someone of privilege vs someone without. You also see how it effects others close to those afflicted, and again how their own class status can affect that reaction.
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