I am charlotte simmons book review
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.