![]() She will not be what people tell her she should be.” ![]() She’s not ignorant of the trope, and she can’t force herself to be ignorant to others expectations of her, which have only decreased in light of her “transformation.”Īs Frankie thinks to herself, “She will not be simple and sweet. It started out as a fun, if not overdone, story about a girl, suddenly made beautiful by powers unknown, and her quest to obtain the hottest-not to mention most popular-boy in school.īut what was supposed to happen after she got the boy? Frankie constantly raises this question as her relationship with Matthew grows deeper and deeper. Just as Frankie didn’t start out trying to dismantle the patriarchy, The Disreputable History didn’t start out as a story about feminism. But Frankie is excruciatingly aware of the double standard and actively tries to raise awareness of it-to the ire of her friends, boyfriend, and faculty at her elite boarding school. Not in that precise wording, perhaps, because that precise wording never once occurs to Frankie. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks is first and foremost a story about feminism. ![]()
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