Isolation, Class Difference and Spiritual Exile in Jeffrey Eugenides‘ The Marriage Plot
Isolation, Class Difference and Spiritual Exile in Jeffrey Eugenides‘ The Marriage Plot

Summary/Abstract: Jeffrey Eugenides‘ third novel, The Marriage Plot, marks a sharp turn from the unpredictable, shocking, risqué prose of the Virgin Suicides and Middlesex to an apparently more toned down, subdued, conventional subject matter. This is, however, not quite the case with this thought-provoking novel. Far from being traditional in approach or style, The Marriage Plot is maybe Eugenides‘ most mature novel, where all the themes and concerns of his previous texts are interwoven into a stunningly complex pattern, voicing the author‘s discontent with modern society and the loss of innocence.

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