Winn Van Meter has every single stereotypical WASP problem: he is forced to endure hordes of relatives and wedding
party members invading his
summer home on an island off the coast of Maine because is daughter had the audacity to decide to marry her live - in boyfriend who impregnated her, he is Captain Ahab - like in his quest throughout the book to
gain membership to the exclusive Pequod Club, he is beyond irritated that his marriage produced only daughters and no sons, and then one of those daughters (not the same daughter who is pregnant and marrying, this would be the other daughter who got pregnant and is not marrying) had to let the entire Ophidian club
at Harvard — of which Winn was a member in his day some forty years ago — learn that she was pregnant by one of their current members.
Within law - student circles, a 2L
at the University of Virginia
gained mythic notoriety last
summer when she reportedly drank too much, undressed too much and dove into the Hudson River while attending a
party hosted by the firm where she was a
summer associate.