Eugenides takes this opportunity to show the reader the history of Leonard and Madeleine’s relationship. This he communicated via an angry letter.
She does so, even though her last contact with Mitchell was several months ago, when he accused her of leading him to believe there could be more than friendship between them, when she had no such intention. Madeleine goes to meet her parents for a pre-graduation breakfast, and when they see Mitchell across the street, they press Madeleine to invite him to join them.
She and Leonard have just broken up, and she spent the previous night drinking heavily to forget her woes. The story opens on graduation day, and Madeleine wakes up with a massive hangover. Madeleine's relationship with Leonard is not without its hurdles, as Leonard suffers from manic-depression. The book takes place in the 1980s, and Madeleine is trying to navigate her relationship with her boyfriend Leonard, while her friend, Mitchell hopes their friendship will develop into something romantic. The same could be said of watching Mia Wasikowska and Keira Knightley play two of the nineteenth century’s most desperate housewives - Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina - characters so vivid and alive with the timeless tragedy of human yearning and fallibility that they’re crying out to be rescued from the hermetically sealed archives of archetype.The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides, is a book that centers on a love triangle between Madeleine Hanna, who is studying literature at Brown University, and Leonard Bankhead and Mitchell Grammaticus.
It would have taken a soothsayer to have predicted his followup film would be a Dostoevsky adaptation, reason enough to believe that the alchemy of Russian master and modern classicist will combust into a thought-provoking and visceral moviegoing experience. Need proof? Take a moment to consider the pioneering talent involved: Richard Ayoade, the cutting-edge Eraserhead-coiffed British TV comic-turned-Arcade-Fire-video-director who made his mind-blowing feature debut with last year’s “Submarine,” an utterly original take on the first love bildungsroman. After considering the slew of stupidly talented and innovative players behind this new batch of Big Book adaptations, there is reason to believe at least one of them may deliver that long overdue masterpiece.
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