![]() ![]() Less sensational but of equal importance is the theme of money and its role. Several other couples also try to form more mature ties. It is no accident that Smiley ends the novel with a wedding in which an adulterous couple, 1960s radicals with four children, finally legalize their relationship. ![]() Many have already experienced promiscuity, divorce, widowhood, or adultery and are seeking committed relationships based on concern, forgiveness, and sharing. Older faculty, administrators, and staff have more complex reactions to their sexual longings. Once the initial thrill of experimentation ends, however, the students begin to realize that fornication itself has few long-term satisfactions. For the students, sex is often a frustrating but frantic round of copulation and shortlived infatuation. Among students, faculty, staff, and administrators there is widespread sexual activity that often reveals a loneliness in the characters. ![]() The most obvious concerns sexual maturation. JANE SMILEY is the author of numerous novels, including A Thousand Acres, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and most recently, Golden Age, the concluding volume of The Last Hundred Years trilogy. ![]()
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