“She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she liked to read. The university’s “British and American Literature Course Catalog” was, for Madeleine, what its Bergdorf equivalent was for her roommates. A course listing like… — Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot Copy Share Image
“And yet sometimes she worried about what those musty old books were doing to her. Some people majored in English to prepare for law school. Others became journalists. The smartest guy in the honors program, Adam Vogel, a child of academics, was planning on getting a Ph.D. and becoming an academic himself. That left a large contingent of people majoring… — Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot Copy Share
“She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she liked to read. The university’s “British and American Literature Course… — Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot Copy Share Image
