Is Tracy Flick abrasive? Divisive? Inspiring? Is she also, now, IP?
, Tracy has the chance for her diligence and can-do spirit to be rewarded, or ignored once again, when the principal at her high school announces his retirement. When a wealthy alum on the school board enlists Tracy’s help to institute a school hall of fame, Tracy’s hopes for the top job get wrapped up in the fortunes of Vito Falcone, a former football star and recovering alcoholic.
. Back in high school, she thought that even if people didn’t necessarily like her, at least they respected her qualifications. Now she’s been stripped even of that solace. When, late in the book, the wife of the wealthy alum makes overtures of friendship to Tracy, she rejects them, knowing in her heart that she prefers to be alone. “I’d gotten out of the habit of making friends,” she says, “or maybe I’d never gotten into the habit in the first place.
not as a novel but—as it must be tempting for many to think of it—as a first draft for adaptation. The film rights ofwere sold before the novel was even published, and the resulting movie is one of the perfect documents of the 1990s indie boom, the epitome of a brief moment when writer-directors drove the culture with sharp, dialogue-driven comedy-dramas.
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