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The other characters are no more nuanced, and—surprise!—their stories collide towards the novel’s end. There are times when Wolfe veers towards originality in characterization, as when Jojo accepts Charlotte’s promptings and enrolls in difficult classes in an...
The current topic is certainly lurid, if you would believe the seventy-three-year-old authorial voice masquerading as wide-eyed Charlotte. The use of free-indirect-discourse throughout the novel often betrays Wolfe as the man behind the curtain, as when Charlotte critiques the pastiche of hotel lobbies ?...
Pervasiveness is right. If you buy Wolfe’s view of college students, every one of them, from the lowly virgin Adam Gellin to the satisfied stud Jojo, and even our dear Charlotte, is pressured relentlessly by their environment to believe sex is the end all of existence. In...
A sample of Wolfian stream of consciousness makes his view nauseatingly clear: Charlotte forces her way through a dance floor “between the revelers, who bobbed and shrieked and ululated and exulted in bawling music drunken screaming stroboscopic girls in slices boys dry-humping in-heat bitches he?...
Does this language and this sentiment exist in college? Of course it does, but it’s not new, and it’s not everything. But Wolfe seems to think it is new, or at least, that the language has changed so dramatically as to signal a serious...