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Life at Princeton. Infatuation with girl back in Minneapolis. He thinks he loves her, but comes to realize he has simply given her qualities that he'd like to love in a girl. She is creature of his imagination. Lots of drinking parties . . . and finally a car crash and a dead classmate. Amory fails exam at end of sophomore year making him ineligible for distinction as upperclassman.
— Aug 22, 2025 09:51AM
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Carl
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Father dies. He learns of family wealth which was substantial 15 years earlier. (Yearly expenditure of $110,000.) Fortune has declined since then, bad investments and his mother's outrageous allowance ($40,000 per year in 1910)
— Aug 22, 2025 09:52AM
Carl
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Amory part of traveling comic troupe connected to Princeton. Descriptions of meetings with upper class girls who are faster than their parents know . . . reminds me in some ways of Downton Abbey as a peak into an entirely different world of wealth and privilege.
— Aug 21, 2025 10:02AM
Carl
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So far, this epitomizes the entitled, white male privilege critique. Amory is born rich, is a snob, expects things to fall his way, and they do. Alcoholic mother, but she plays such a small part in his upbringing it hardly matters.
— Aug 21, 2025 08:23AM
