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...Move-In Day is foreshadowing in “Prozac Nation.” The first Harvard chapter begins with Wurtzel??s mother chiding her for commenting that the rain on the drive to Boston “doesn’t bode well.” She hoped the change in environment would snap her daughter out of her depression. “But when we got to Matthews Hall on Saturday afternoon and discovered I lived on the fifth floor and there were no elevators,” Wurtzel wrote, “even she became...
...Wurtzel??s friends may have even more reason to be scared. “On Halloween of my freshman year,” she wrote, “I found myself running through Harvard Yard because my best friend (at least so far), Ruby, was pursuing me and threatening to kill me, her pocket knife unsheathed, screaming something like, ‘you bitch, I’ll kill...
...debate over Wurtzel??s use of her image began with the charmingly vulnerable confrontation of Prozac Nation’s cover, but really blew up with Bitch. Its original cover presented a topless Wurtzel, grinning knowingly and extending her middle finger at the world...
...Lizzie Was Doing Drugs,” booms the headline of a New York Daily news cover. It originally referred to scandal-ridden socialite Lizzie Grubman, but here, framed and prominently displayed on a shelf in Wurtzel??s apartment, the joke needs no explanation...
...Wurtzel??s position in the young feminist canon is debatable. She may embody some of its philosophies in her apologetic zeal for personal liberty, but analyzing gender no longer seems a priority to her. When asked about the topic, she admits she hasn’t thought much about it since Bitch, and struggles to articulate her position through a slew of personal anecdotes and desultory political tangents...