The Marriage Plot

by Jeffrey Eugenides

In a soft voice edged with pity, with sadness, Leonard said, “I divorce thee, I divorce thee, I divorce thee.”

Why am i so sad. What did mitchell say to him?

He’d been staying at the Hannas’ ever since, for almost a month. They’d put him in the attic bedroom where he’d stayed during Thanksgiving break sophomore year.

If she comes upstajrs again i'll freak out

And when Madeleine looked at him, he reached up and pulled her down onto the bed.

I KNEW IT YES

He was her survival kit.

but finally the second suitor realizes that the last thing the woman needs is to get married again, that she’s got more important things to do with her life? And so finally the guy doesn’t propose at all, even though he still loves her? Is there any book that ends like that?”