To the Editor:
Regarding your article on "The Marriage Plot" by Jeffrey Eugenides '83 ("‘The Marriage Plot': refraction of the real?" Nov. 8): Reading it now and at least one teacher is named outright, Professor Sears Jayne, but others are half-deconstructed. Zipperstein is very obviously Professor Emeritus of Modern Culture and Media Robert Scholes. The geography is very odd. Much of the school seems to exist on Benefit or South Main streets, people walk up to Hope Street from Wayland Arch, never turn but arrive on Wickenden Street and not Wayland Square. Madeleine lives in an apartment house, but no apartment house is around there. I don't think anything was ever knocked down on Bowen Street. I think maybe Eugenides was stoned for four years at Brown. Very easy reading, middlebrown deconstruction for a best seller.
Richard Steingesser PhD'72
