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Marriage plot is a term used, often in academic circles, to categorize a storyline that recurs in novels most prominently and more recently in films. The marriage plot is a 2011 novel by the american writer, jeffrey eugenides. While everyone else in the early 1980s was reading derrida, she was happily absorbed with jane austen and george eliot. There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an english novel.
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