Kathy (Kaiyi Qian)
Dr. J. Marquardt
ENG 1430 W10
April 13th , 2015
Word count: 224
Dr. J. Marquardt
ENG 1430 W10
April 13th , 2015
Word count: 224
Response to Why the Marriage Plot Need Never Get Old
This essay is actually a rebuttal of the argument of Jeffrey Eugenides’ novel “The Marriage Plot”. Jeffrey Eugenides complained that “Sexual equality, good for women, had been bad for the novel”. He thought that the liberation of women and liberalization of divorce law really undone the novel completely so that marriage plot need will get old.
The author Waldman rebut the argument of marriage plot need get old in several aspects. First, he pointed out the fact that Eugenides wrote “The Marriage Plot” exactly indicate that such novels never go old because this novel was about contemporary relationships. Then, Waldman argued that “much of novels strength derives from the internal and the timeless;from conflicts rooted in the perversity of human nature and the persistent difficulties of social life”. Though sexual equality or feminisim set female from the social constraints, psychological and internal contradictions are till exist. That's why the marriage plot need never get old. Even if at novel's end this happily-ever- after marriages seemed get old and seldom people believe it, the marriage plot need never get old. They are just reflected in another way.
The author Waldman rebut the argument of marriage plot need get old in several aspects. First, he pointed out the fact that Eugenides wrote “The Marriage Plot” exactly indicate that such novels never go old because this novel was about contemporary relationships. Then, Waldman argued that “much of novels strength derives from the internal and the timeless;from conflicts rooted in the perversity of human nature and the persistent difficulties of social life”. Though sexual equality or feminisim set female from the social constraints, psychological and internal contradictions are till exist. That's why the marriage plot need never get old. Even if at novel's end this happily-ever- after marriages seemed get old and seldom people believe it, the marriage plot need never get old. They are just reflected in another way.
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