Monday, October 13, 2008

"Most Cab Drivers Have Liberal Arts Degrees" (39).

The book I'm reading now is The Rules Of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis. I'm about a fourth of the way in and so far I can tell its about the lives of several liberal art students in the eighties and their various experiences, few of which involve any actual classes. I think that it would be good for me to discuss the characters because keeping track of them can be confusing at times, since each chapter or section is a different character's point of view. Here we go...

character's whose heads we get inside of:

Sean: sleeps with Deidre, drinks a lot, very interested in Candice

Paul: Lauren's ex, bisexual, still in love with Mitchell who has a thing with Candice now, Drama major, accidentally asks Sean out to dinner because he thought Sean was asking him, but doesn't make it to the date because Harry the freshman seems to have ODed and they have to take him to the hospital

Lauren: in love with her ex boyfriend Victor who's in Europe, constantly switching boyfriends, sleeps with Steve

Victor: has a crazy time in Europe

There's also parts written by a mysterious anonymous girl who is very much in love with Sean and sends him love notes constantly even though he probably doesn't know she exists.

All of these characters have different friend groups so it takes a while to get used to reading the constant change of characters, even though the events are mostly the same.

1 comment:

Teacher: Mrs. Jarrett said...

Sounds like you have a pretty good understanding of this book so far. I think your last post was a great idea--returning to your questions to see if they were answered. Excellent work thus far on the blog.