Thinking And Reacting In Prep By Curtis Sittenfeld

Thinking and Reacting “My present world was always, in its mildness, a little disappointing.” Location and the people around you take some time getting used to when you’re in a boarding school. In this novel by Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep, After being stuck in a midwestern town most of Lee Fiora’s life, she decides her eighth grade year that she wants to go to boarding school due to what she has seen on TV and in magazines. Lee has made a huge decision regarding her education; not only that, but where she will live for the next four years of her life and the kinds of people she will meet. Characters and setting have a large impact on the way people think about their life and react to their life.

Attending an upscale boarding school like, Ault can often cause you to glamorize someone or something: due to a title. A young girl by the name of Gates had Lee Fiora in a dreamy state of mind; due to the fact that “Gates was the first girl in Ault’s history to have been elected perfect.” Lee Fiora thinks, while people are being elected for perfects. As well as the thought that “Even though she was special, she was pretending to be like the rest of us.” while giving Gates a compliment. Moreover, “This was always the thing about the thing about Ault in some ways my fantasies about it had not been wrong.” Lee Fiora’s setting and characters such as Gates has altered the way she thinks.
For instance, Lee Fiora’s father calls her an ungrateful little bitch because she was acting indifferent towards him and her mother. By way of example, “I turned away from him, back to my father. You’re an asshole,” I said and I was sobbing by then. And you’re an ungrateful little bitch.” Being away from home in a new place can cause your family’s perception of you to change, especially when you attend boarding