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Following graduation Madeleine and Leonard move to Cape Cod where Leonard takes up postgraduate work at a biology lab. Leonard Bankhead: A Biology major with a side interest in Philosophy, who quickly becomes Madeleine's paramour.She is also ensnared in a love triangle of sorts with her classmates, Leonard Bankhead and Mitchell Grammaticus. During the course of the novel she is concerned with the writing of her undergraduate thesis, which revolves around the concept of "the marriage plot" in the 19th century novel. Madeleine Hanna: An English major at Brown University and the daughter of affluent parents.The story focuses on three college friends from Brown University - Madeleine Hanna, Leonard Bankhead, and Mitchell Grammaticus - beginning in their senior year, 1982, and subsequently follows them during their first year post-graduation. The novel was well received by many critics, and was featured on year-end best of 2011 lists. The book is both a realist story about marriage and a commentary on the kind of story it tells. Eugenides has stated that he worked on the novel for about five or six years, and that portions are loosely based on his collegiate and post-collegiate experiences. The novel grew out of a manuscript that Eugenides began after the publication of his sophomore Pulitizer Prize-winning novel, Middlesex. The Marriage Plot is a 2011 novel by the American writer, Jeffrey Eugenides.