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Title: Happy ending? (slight spoiler)
Review: Charlotte is Sherman McCoy is Charlie Croker - a legend in her own mind, one whose self-constructed fortress of ego is mercilessly demolished, brick by brick, by the author working through his characters, until she crawls from the rubble at the end - to begin building another castle. That, more than race, class, or wealth, is the theme that unites Wolfe's three novels.I must take issue with the reviewers who refer to the novel's happy ending. The close of the book is absolutely chilling - Charlotte, debauched by peer pressure and the jaded, cynical materialism of her Nobel-prizewinning neuroscience professor's theories, doesn't simply lose her soul. She forcibly pushes it down, smothering it under a pillow of noise and stimulation, fannie-shaking cheerleaders and Serbian jugglers. The last words we hear her mother tell her in the book is to look into her soul; Charlotte instead murders it.
