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Walk around Harvard’s campus, and you will undoubtedly find throngs of students who attended New England prep schools or the Mid-Atlantic equivalent. They sit next to you in Psychology 1504, “Positive Psychology.” They stumble beside you at Friday night parties...
Thumb through the crisp pages of “Prep,” and one discovers a high school world foreign to most of the American population...
While most of the characters are fully fleshed out, there are a few whom serve merely functional purposes, such as the New York Times reporter. Operating off simple motivations—resentment and anger at having been a prep school outcast herself—this character does not possess any real layers or depth of feeling...
...maybe Sittenfeld purposefully depicted her in this manner. After all, Lee does not identify with the reporter’s blind villainization of prep schools. On the contrary, Lee feels pangs of guilt at having unwittingly dragged Ault’s name through the journalistic...
...characters of “Prep,” life does not exists in simplistic black and white type. Ault is not the villain. Lee is not a perfectly righteous heroine. Rather, the story is one of universal experience and collective evolution—filled with mistakes, ridicule, and eventual peace with oneself and others...