![]() Just mopes around feeling inadequate and sorry for herself and resenting people. ![]() But instead of that, she never ever changes and she doesn’t become a better person at all. ![]() You start the book, and here is Lee, this passive girl who acts like she thinks everyone wants her to act, and she’s kind of racist, and you think okay, she’s going to change and grow up and become a better person. Here is why I didn’t like Prep, and it is a criticism I bet Curtis Sittenfeld has heard a hundred hundred times: Lee is an awful character, and for a book that is clearly intended as a bildungsroman, Prep doesn’t show Lee coming of age at all. Because it might actually be against the rules of literature to write about a girl at a fancy boarding school who comes from the same background as all her peers. ![]() Prep is about a Midwestern girl called Lee who goes to a fancy Massachusetts preparatory school, Ault, where she feels terribly out of place because she is from the Midwest and because she is not rich but is on a scholarship. I went to the library the other day and got all the available books classified under the heading “Boarding schools - Fiction”. ![]()
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