6/25/2023 0 Comments Trick mirror jia tolentinoThe final essays return to issues of feminism and womanhood. She examines her own alma mater in "We Come from Old Virginia," which analyzes relationships between sex and power institutions at the University of Virginia. In "The Story of a Generation in Seven Scams," Tolentino positions scamming as the action that has defined the Millennial generation, referencing how these scams have affected her life from college to the present day. The following essay, "Pure Heroines," also focuses on women here, tracing the life cycle of the literary heroine from girlhood to adolescence to adulthood. Tolentino uses a combination of personal narrative and analysis of larger social trends in "Always Be Optimizing," in which she describes society's current ideal woman and the ways in which athleisure trends reflect her. Tolentino focuses on her personal history in "Reality TV Me," which describes her time on a reality show as a teenager. She then begins the collection with "The I in Internet," which traces the development of the internet in terms of its social and psychological effects, as well as Tolentino's own use of it. Tolentino introduces her own work, contextualizing it as writing produced in the context of the 2016 presidential election and its aftermath.
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