![]() The book takes place in the 1980s, and Madeleine is trying to navigate her relationship with her boyfriend Leonard, while her friend, Mitchell. That is my point about “The Marriage Plot”: you read books and they change your life.”Įugenides switches points of view among Madeleine, Mitchell and Leonard, edging the plot forward slightly as he fills in the back story. The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides, is a book that centers on a love triangle between Madeleine Hanna, who is studying literature at Brown University, and Leonard Bankhead and Mitchell Grammaticus. It’s amazing because it changed certain decisions in my life. ![]() That’s the level to which Joyce influenced me. In a very grandiose, self-dramatizing way I thought of Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce’s “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, rejecting the priesthood and becoming a writer in the same way. I thought I wanted to become a scholar of religion, but I chose not to do that, and to pursue writing. I thought about converting to Catholicism, even though I was brought up as a Greek Orthodox. In an interview, Jeffrey Eugenides is asked “Was the character of Mitchell in “The Marriage Plot” based on a younger Jeffrey Eugenides?” He replies, “The one part of Mitchell’s story that comes close to my life is that I did take a lot of religious studies courses in college and got very interested in religion. ![]() Eugenides inhabits the minds of each of the points of this love triangle in turn. The Marriage Plot moves between the viewpoints of the three characters, but is mostly told from Madeleine and Mitchell's perspectives. ![]()
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