Book Review: The Marriage Plot Teaches Us that Marriage is Not the Solution

By Carolyn Abrams

The “marriage plot”—the idea that the central conflict of a novel is about love, and resolved by a happy marriage—is both the basis of the main character’s senior thesis and a device for Jeffery Eugenides to deconstruct. Eugenides hews to the marriage plot insofar as the relationships are the plot, but he turns on…

Carolyn Abrams
Carolyn Abrams

Carolyn Abrams is a writer and public relations professional based in Brooklyn, NY. She earned an MA in Strategic Public Relations from the University of Southern California and a BA in psychology from Boston University. When not working, she can be found running in a park, watching an inordinate amount of British TV or throwing dinner parties for friends.

Find her on Twitter here: @caroleena13.

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