reflections upon commencement and the legacy of jeffrey eugenides’ the marriage plot
originally published in post-magazine
during my senior year of high school, I took an honors english seminar. its thirteen spots were awarded to a cohort of rising seniors who satisfactorily completed a pre-requisite essay response to roland barthes’ from work to text. each week we dove headfirst into different subgenres of literary theory, our backpacks weighed down by the menacing brick that is rivkin and ryan’s 1650-paged book, literary theory: an anthology…