Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey invited Steven Hicks, a 19-year-old boy to his father’s house. They began to drank alcohol and then later had sex. When Steven was getting ready to leave, Jeffrey hit Steven’s head with a barbell and killed him. After Dahmer killed him, he dismembered the body and put different parts of Steven in garbage bags and buried the bags in his backyard of his father’s home. Many years later, he dug up the bags, crushed the bones, and threw them around the woods (Baumann,1991). One thing is…

As a young man in high school everyone could tell Jeffery Dahmer was different. Looked on as an outcast, Jeff felt he was out of place in this world. His parents were not there for him, Jeff had no one there for him and that ultimately led him to become the serial killer he was. In Derf Backderfs spellbinding Graphic Novel My Friend Dahmer, a story about Dahmer’s dark adolescent life, taught me to be sensitive to someone’s home-life, be there for people, and to stay positive and strong. You…

During the 1980's, state regulated monopolies were responsible for the manufacture, transmission and sale of electricity and natural gas to customers. However, these monopolies were rather incompetent and unreliable in the eyes of the customers [7]. At the onset of the Corporation, Enron has made claims that it could revolutionize the energy industry, and the Internet [6]. Enron then began to advertise through the means of Wall Street, claiming that energy could be treated as a stock or a bond…

family’s history, and going through gender identities throughout his teenage years. Jeffrey Eugenides is an American writer, mostly focusing on novels and short stories. He has written three novels in his career, these include Middlesex (2002), The marriage plot (2011), The virgin suicides (1993). His most famous book Middlesex has granted Jeffrey 3 awards, including the 2003 Pulitzer Prize. The novel is based on Eugenides’ own beliefs and experience, however, he is not an intersex in real life.…

Jeffrey Eugenides’ childhood greatly influenced his perspective of the urban decay created by the failure of the automotive industry in Detroit. His contemporary novel, The Marriage Plot, mirrors the unprecedented, rapid transition from prosperity to failure. Nevertheless, he presents his childhood in a positive manner due to his positive temperament, but this only causes him to further question the role of destructive upbringings, as seen in his novel, The Virgin Suicides. By exploring the…

a. Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Jeffrey Eugenides The Virgin Suicides both examine the relationship between victims and the world surrounding them; while Plath creates an individual, inspired by herself, who fights against the world, Eugenides, affected by his youth in a violent city, writes about a suburban society, instrumental in oppressing the Lisbon girls. While both protagonists fight against their worlds with their painful pollution and challenges to male superiority, they struggle to…

Gender roles, suburbs, and conformity: What lies in the Virgin Suicides In the book The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffrey Eugenides, gender roles of the characters were in the form of stereotypes within suburbia and the added stress of conforming to those stereotypes led them to breakdown. Gender roles was a reoccurring theme within the Virgin Suicides. This theme was shown through the perceptions of the Lisbon sisters, and Mr. and Mrs. Lisbon, by the neighborhood boys. Gender roles are nevertheless…

In childbirth, a newborn's identity is male or female, based on somatic traits. However, in some cases a person's sex can be ambiguous because of mutated genes. This was the case for a hermaphrodite named Cal in Jeffrey Eugenides's, Middlesex. In this novel Eugenides tells the story of Cal and of his Greek-American family, through a history of three generations. To begin with, Cal's grandparents Lefty and Desdemona are siblings who migrate to America because of Turkish attacks on their homeland,…

spot in society. In Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides’ shows the beginnings of this movement and the repercussions that occurred to individuals like Cal…

express themselves as they see fit. Those who go above and beyond the social guidelines are left in ridicule as people mock, label, and bully these individuals into conforming alongside what is considered “normal”. The novel Middlesex, written by Jeffrey Eugenides challenges and portrays acceptance towards a label friendly society within the context of queer theory through characters such…