I am charlotte simmons pdf

Also included in this collection. Dupont University--the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition.

Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered freshman from North Carolina. But Charlotte soon learns, to her mounting dismay, that for. A Man In Full. The first edition of the novel was published in December 9th , and was written by Tom Wolfe. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in Paperback format.

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Dupont University--the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition. Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered freshman from North Carolina. But Charlotte soon learns, to her mounting dismay, that for the uppercrust coeds of Dupont, sex, Cool, and kegs trump academic achievement every time.

As Charlotte encounters Dupont's privileged elite--her roommate, Beverly, a Groton-educated Brahmin in lusty pursuit of lacrosse players; Jojo Johanssen, the only white starting player on Dupont's godlike basketball team, whose position is threatened by a hotshot black freshman from the projects; the Young Turk of Saint Ray fraternity, Hoyt Thorpe, whose heady sense of entitlement and social domination is clinched by his accidental brawl with a bodyguard for the governor of California; and Adam Geller, one of the Millennial Mutants who run the university's "independent" newspaper and who consider themselves the last bastion of intellectual endeavor on the sex-crazed, jock-obsessed campus--she gains a new, revelatory sense of her own power, that of her difference and of her very innocence, but little does she realize that she will act as a catalyst in all of their lives.

With his signature eye for detail, Tom Wolfe draws on extensive observation of campuses across the country to immortalize college life in the '00s. I Am Charlotte Simmons is the much-anticipated triumph of America's master chronicler. A native of Richmond, Virginia, he earned his B.

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So does jerk , as in Whatta jerk! It has been totally replaced by a quaint anatomical metaphor. Students who load up conversations with likes and totallys, as in like totally awesome, are almost always females. The totallys now give off such whiffs of parody, they are fading away, even as I write. All that was quite in addition to the many times you rescued me when I got in over my head trying to use current slang.

I say esoteric, because in many cases these were areas of life one would not ordinarily think of as social at all. Given your powers of abstraction, your father had only to reassemble the material he had accumulated visiting campuses across the country. What I feel about you both I can say best with a long embrace. But then an air hinge would close the door, and Swarm would vanish, and you could once again hear students drunk on youth and beer being funny or at least loud as they stood before the urinals.

Two of them were finding it amusing to move their hands back and forth in front of the electric eyes to make the urinals keep flushing. One exclaimed to the other, Whattaya mean, a slut? They both broke up over that. They both broke up again. Then the door would open and Swarm would come crashing in again. None of this distracted the only student who at this moment stood before the row of basins. His attention was riveted on what he saw in the mirror, which was his own fair white face. A gale was blowing in his head.

He liked it. He bared his teeth. He had never seen them quite this way before. So even! So white! They vibrated from perfection. And his square jaw … that chin with the perfect cleft in it … his thick, thatchy light brown hair … those brilliant hazel eyes … his!

Right there in the mirror— him! All at once he felt like he was a second person looking over his own shoulder. The first him was mesmerized by his own good looks. But the second him studied the face in the mirror with detachment and objectivity before coming to the same conclusion, which was that he looked awesome.

Then the two of him inspected his upper arms where they emerged from the sleeves of his polo shirt. He turned sideways and straightened one arm to make the triceps stand out. Jacked , both hims agreed. He had never felt happier in his life. Not only that, he was on the verge of a profound discovery. It had to do with one person looking at the world through two pairs of eyes. If only he could freeze this moment in his mind and remember it tomorrow and write it down.

He looked away from the mirror, and there was Vance with his head of blond hair tousled as usual. They were in the same fraternity; in fact, Vance was the president. Hoyt had an overwhelming desire to tell him what he had just discovered. So he turned his palms upward and smiled and shrugged.

Hoyt knew it really meant he looked very drunk. But in his current sublime state, what difference did it make? Tell the truth! Coo Uh gitta bigga boner? He turned away in order to pay attention to the urinal, but then he looked at Hoyt once more and said with a serious tone in his voice, You know what I think?

From the moment he founded Dupont University years ago, Charles Dupont, the artificial dye king and art collector, no kin to the du Ponts of Delaware, had envisioned an actual grove of academe through which scholars young and old might take contemplative strolls.

He had commissioned the legendary landscape artist Charles Gillette. There was the Great Yard at its heart, the quadrangles of the older residential colleges, a botanical garden, two floral lawns with gazebos, tree-studded parking lots, but, above all, this arboreal masterpiece, the Grove, so artfully contrived you would never know Dupont was practically surrounded by the black slums of a city as big as Chester, Pennsylvania.

Gillette had had every tree, every ground cover, every bush and vine, every grassy clearing, every perennial planted just so, and they had been maintained just so for the better part of a century.

He had sent sinuous paths winding through it for the contemplative strolls. But although the practice was discouraged, students often walked straight through this triumph of American landscape art, the way Hoyt and Vance walked now beneath the brightness of a big round moon. He felt as if he were back at that blissful intersection on the graph of drunkenness at which the high has gone as high as it can go without causing the powers of reasoning and coherence to sink off the chart and get trashed … the exquisite point of perfect toxic poise.

He was convinced he could once again utter a coherent sentence and make himself understood, and the blissful gale inside his head blew on. But that moment kept slipping away … slipping away … slipping away … and before he knew it, an entirely different notion had bubbled up into his brain.

It was the Grove … the Grove … the famous Grove … which said Dupont … and made him feel Dupont in his bones, which in turn made his bones infinitely superior to the bones of everybody in America who had never gone to Dupont. Where was the writer who would immortalize that feeling—the exaltation that lit up his very central nervous system when he met someone and quickly worked into the conversation some seemingly offhand indication that he was in college, and the person would inevitably ask, What college do you go to?

Some, especially women, would be openly impressed. Everyone, male or female, who was right now, as he was, in the undergraduate division, Dupont College, or had ever graduated from Dupont College knew that feeling, treasured that feeling, sought one way or another to enjoy that feeling daily if at all possible, now and for the rest of his life—yet nobody had ever captured that feeling in words, and God knows no Dupont man, or Dupont woman, for that matter, had ever tried to describe it out loud to a living soul, not even to others within this charming aristocracy.

He looked about the Grove. The trees were enchanted silhouettes under a golden full moon. Merrily, merrily the gale blew on and—a flash of inspiration— he would be the one to put it all into words! He would be the bard! He knew he had it in him to be a writer.

He had never had the time to do any writing other than papers for classes, but he now knew he had it in him. He could hardly wait for tomorrow when he would wake up and capture that feeling on the screen of his Mac. Or maybe he would tell Vance about it right now. Vance was just a few feet ahead of him as they walked through the enchanted Grove.

Vance he could talk to about such a thing …. Suddenly Vance looked at Hoyt and held one hand up in the gesture that says Stop and put a forefinger up to his lips and pressed himself up against the trunk of a tree. Hoyt did likewise. Then Vance indicated they should peek around the tree. There in the moonlight, barely twenty-five feet away, they could make out two figures. One was a man with a great shock of white hair, sitting on the ground at the base of a tree trunk with his pants and his boxer shorts down around his ankles and his heavy white thighs spread apart.

The other was a girl in shorts and a T-shirt who was on her knees between his knees, facing him. Her big head of hair looked very pale in the moonlight as it pumped up and down over his lap. Vance pulled back behind the tree and whispered, Holy shit, Hoyt, you know who that is? Commencement was Saturday. Tonight was Thursday. Then wuz he doing here now?

They peeked out from behind the tree again. The man and the girl must have heard them, because they were both looking their way. Hoyt spun around and found himself confronting a short but massively muscled man in a dark suit and a collar and tie that could barely contain his neck, which was wider than his head.

A little translucent coiled cord protruded from his left ear. He was a Dupont man staring at an impudent simian from the lower orders. The man seized him by both shoulders and slammed him back against the tree, knocking the breath out of him. Just as the little gorilla drew his fist back, Vance got down on all fours behind his legs. Hoyt ducked the punch, which smashed into the tree trunk, and drove his forearm into his assailant—who had just begun to yell Shiiiiiit from the pain—with all his might.

The man toppled backward over Vance and hit the ground with a sickening thud. He started to get up but then sank back to the ground. He lay there on his side next to a big exposed maple root, his face contorted, holding one shoulder with a hand whose bloody knuckles were gashed clear down to the bone. The arm that should have been socketed into the stricken shoulder was extended at a grotesque angle. Hoyt and Vance, who was still on all fours, stared speechless at this picture of agony.

The man opened his eyes, saw that his adversaries were no longer on the attack, and groaned, Fugguz … fugguz … Then, overcome by God knows what, he folded his face into another blind grimace and lay there moaning, Muhfugguh … muhfugguh ….

The two boys looked at each other and, possessed by a single thought, turned toward the man and the girl—who were gone. Which they did. As they ran through the arboretum, the tree trunks and shrubs and flowers and foliage kept whipping by in the dark and Vance kept saying things like Self-defense, self-defense … just … self-defense, until he was too winded to run and speak at the same time.

They neared the edge of the Grove, where it bordered the open campus, and Vance said, Slow … down … He was so out of breath he could utter no more than a syllable or two after each gulp of air. So they emerged from the Grove walking and acting natural, except that their breathing sounded like a pair of handsaws and they were soaked with sweat.

He had deleted that sonofabitch! He could hardly wait to get back to the Saint Ray house and tell everybody. A legend in the making! He looked up and gazed at what lay just ahead of them, and he was swept by the male exhilaration—ecstasy! The towers, the turrets, the spires, the heavy slate roofs—all of it ineffably beautiful and ineffably grand. It was a stronghold.

He, Hoyt, was one of a charmed circle, that happy few who could enter the stronghold at will … and feel its invincibility in their bones. Not only that, he was in the innermost ring of that charmed circle, namely, Saint Ray, the fraternity of those who have been chosen to hold dominion over … well, over everybody. He wanted to impart this profound truth to Vance … but shit, it was such a mouthful. So all he said was, Vance, you know what Saint Ray is? The total irrelevancy of the question made Vance stare back at him with his mouth open.

Finally, in hopes of getting his accomplice moving again, he said, No, what? Only awe. Stop worrying, said Hoyt, sweeping his hand grandly from here to there, as if to take in the entire tableau before him. Innermost ring … charmed circle. What was Vance so squirrelly about? He was a Dupont man himself. Hoyt once more gazed lovingly upon the moon-washed kingdom before them. The great library tower … the famous gargoyles, plainly visible in silhouette on the corner of Lapham College … way over there, the dome of the basketball arena … the new glass-and-steel neuroscience center, or whatever it was—even that weird building looked great at this moment … Dupont!

Science—Nobel winners! A small cloud formed—the rising number of academic geeks, book humpers, homosexuals, flute prodigies, and other diversoids who were now being admitted … Nevertheless! His heart was so full he wanted to pour it out to Vance. Vance put a hand over his face and moaned almost as pitifully as the little thug on the ground in the Grove. Alleghany County is perched so high up in the hills of western North Carolina that golfers intrepid enough to go up there to play golf call it mountain golf.

In the entire county, there is only one town. It is called Sparta. Primeval is precisely the word for it. Paleontologists reckon that the New River is one of the two or three oldest rivers in the world.

He was leading a team of surveyors up to the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which form part of the Continental Divide. He reached the top, looked down the other side, and saw the same breathtaking sight that enchants outdoorsy outlanders today: a wide, absolutely clear mountain stream flanked by dense, deep green stands of virgin forest set against the immense ashy backdrop of the Blue Ridge, which from a distance really does look blue.

Not all that long ago the mountains were a wall that cut Alleghany County off from people in the rest of North Carolina so completely, they called it the Lost Province, when they thought of it at all.

Modern highways have made the county accessible, but an air of remoteness, an atmosphere primeval, remains, and that is what the summer people, the campers, the canoers, the fishers, hunters, golfers, and mountain crafts shoppers love about it. There is no mall, no movie house, and not one stockbroker. What parents in Sparta would even aspire to having a son or daughter go to a university like Dupont?

Probably none. In fact, when word got out that a senior at the high school, a girl named Charlotte Simmons, would be going to Dupont in the fall, it was front-page news in The Alleghany News , the weekly newspaper.

The principal, Mr. Thoms, was at the podium up on the stage at one end of the basketball court. He had already mentioned, in the course of announcing the various citations for excellence, that Charlotte Simmons had won the French prize, the English prize, and the creative writing prize.

Now he was introducing her as the student who would deliver the valedictory address. She had gone over it so many times, she had memorized and internalized it just the way she had all those lines when she played Bella in the school play, Gaslight. She was worried about two other matters entirely: her looks and her classmates. All but her face and hair were concealed by the kelly-green gown with a white collar and the kelly-green mortarboard with a gold tassel the school issued for the occasion.

Nevertheless, her face and hair—she had spent hours, hours , this morning washing her long straight brown hair, which came down below her shoulders, drying it in the sun, combing it, brushing it, fluffing it, worrying about it, since she thought it was her strongest asset. As for her face, she believed she was pretty but looked too adolescent, too innocent, vulnerable, virginal— virginal— the humiliating term itself flashed through her head … and the girl sitting next to her, Regina Cox, kept sighing after every young woman who.

How much did Regina resent her? How many others sitting beside her and behind her in their green gowns resented her? Why did Mr.

Thoms have to go on with so many young woman whos? In this moment of stardom, with practically everybody she knew looking on, she felt almost as much guilt as triumph. But triumph she did feel, and guilt has been defined as the fear of being envied.

The adults in the rows of folding chairs behind her murmured appreciatively. Ladies and gentlemen … Charlotte Simmons, who will deliver the valedictory address. Tremendous ovation. As Charlotte stood up to head for the stairs to the stage, she became terribly aware of her body and how it moved. She lowered her head to indicate modesty. So she straightened up, a motion that was just enough to make her mortarboard, which was a fraction of an inch too big, shift slightly on top of her head.

What if it fell off? Not only would she look like a hopeless fool but she would also have to bend way over and pick it up and put it back on her head—doing what to her hair? She steadied the board with one hand, but she was already at the stairs, and she had to use that hand to gather up her gown for fear of stepping on the hem as she ascended, since she held the text of her speech in the other hand. Thoms, who was stepping toward her with a big smile and an outstretched hand.

Now she was at the podium, facing everybody sitting in folding chairs on the basketball court. They were still applauding. Right before her was the green rectangle formed by her classmates, the seniors in their caps and gowns. Laurie McDowell, who had a gold Beta sash, too, was clapping enthusiastically and looking her right in the face with a genuine smile, but then Laurie was her friend, her only close friend in the class.

Brian Crouse, with his reddish blond bangs—oh dear, Brian! More applause, because all the adults were smiling and beaming at her and clapping for all they were worth. Over there was Mrs. In the same row, two seats beyond the boys, sat Miss Pennington, wearing a dress with a big print that was absolutely the wrong choice for a sixty-some-year-old woman of her ungainly bulk, but that was Miss Pennington, true to form—dear Miss Pennington!

Thoms, members of the faculty, alumni and friends of the school —her voice was okay, it was steady— parents, fellow students, fellow classmates …. She hesitated. Her first sentence was going to sound awful! She had been determined to make her speech different, not merely a string of the usual farewell sentiments. But what she was about to say —only now did she realize how it would sound—and now it was too late!

John, Viscount Morley of Blackburn — why had she started off with such a snobby name! And of these three things, what she says is the least important. She paused, just the way she had planned it, to let the audience respond to what was supposed to be the witty introduction to the speech, paused with a sinking heart, because her words had all but shrieked that she was an intellectual snob—.

She paused again. More laughter, right on cue. And then she realized it was the adults. They were the ones. In the green rectangle of her classmates, a few were laughing, a few were smiling. Oh gimme a break. Nevertheless, I will try to examine some of the lessons we seniors have learned over the past four years, lessons that lie beyond the boundaries of the academic curriculum—. Why had she said lie beyond the boundaries of the academic curriculum , which she had thought was so grand when she wrote it down—and now sounded so stilted and pompous as it fell clanking from her lips—.

They looked up in awe, thirsty for whatever she cared to give them! It began to dawn on her … they saw her as a wonder child, a prodigy miraculously arisen from the rocky soil of Sparta. They were in a mood to be impressed by whatever she cared to say.

A bit more confident now, she continued. We have learned to appreciate many things that we once took for granted. We have learned to look at the special environment in which we live, as if it were the first time we had ever seen it. She knew it all so completely by heart, the words began to roll out as if on tape, and her mind began to double-track … Try as she might to avoid it, her eyes kept drifting back to her classmates … to Channing Reeves … Why should she even care what Channing and his circle of friends and admirers thought of her?

Channing had come on to her twice, and only twice—and why should she care? We have learned that achievement cannot be measured in the cold calculations of income and purchasing power …. We have learned that cooperation, pulling together as one, achieves so much more than going it alone, and …. But why should that wound her? It just does! A wave of anger.