7/1/2023 0 Comments I am charlotte simmons review![]() But not to worry, her teacher and mentor Miss Pennington tells her: “I’m not going to let you look back. This environment never satisfied Charlotte, and her more simple-minded classmates never warmed to her bright disposition. Sparta looks much like its location and name suggest it would, a rustic backwater full of inarticulate and unscholarly (but buoyant and stoical) townsfolk. We begin as Charlotte, graduating at the top of her high school class and earning myriad honors and plaudits, leaves her North Carolina mountain town of Sparta behind for the luminous Dupont University, constructed fictitiously in southeastern Pennsylvania. ![]() ![]() The effect here isn’t quite Wodehousean hilarity, but it works surprisingly well. ![]() Such a generous helping of stereotype and hyperbole as Tom Wolfe serves up in I Am Charlotte Simmons might leave readers feeling over-satiated, but I’d hate to make too much of it. ![]()
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