Her roommate is wealthy Beverly, the daughter of the CEO of a huge multinational insurance company. The story of the night soon spreads across campus, increasing Hoyt's popularity.Ĭharlotte arrives at Dupont in the fall. When the governor's bodyguard spots the two fraternity members, a fight ensues with Hoyt and Vance beating up the bodyguard and fleeing. Hoyt Thorpe, member of the exclusive and powerful fraternity Saint Ray, and fellow frat brother Vance, stumble upon an unnamed California Republican governor (who was at the college to speak at the school's commencement ceremony) receiving oral sex from a female college student. A high school graduate from a poverty-stricken rural town, her intelligence and hard work at school have been rewarded with a full scholarship to Dupont.Īs Charlotte prepares to say goodbye to her family and leave for college, an event happens at Dupont that will play an important role in her future. I Am Charlotte Simmons is the story of college student Charlotte Simmons's first semester-and-a-half at the prestigious Dupont University. Wolfe suggested it depicts the American university today at a fictional college that is " Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Duke, and a few other places all rolled into one." Plot Wolfe researched the novel by talking to students at North Carolina, Florida, Penn, Duke, Stanford, and Michigan. I Am Charlotte Simmons is a 2004 novel by Tom Wolfe, concerning sexual and status relationships at the fictional Dupont University.
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