Tracy Flick Can't Win Quotes

Tom Perrotta
This Study Guide consists of approximately 42 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Tracy Flick Can't Win.

Tracy Flick Can't Win Quotes

Tom Perrotta
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It gnawed at me that summer, the possibility that I'd misjudged my own past, that maybe I'd been a little more ordinary than I would have liked to believe.
-- Narrator (chapter 1)

Importance: The more Me Too stories that Tracy hears or reads about in the news, the more overwhelmed she is by memories from her past. The stories are unsettlingly reminiscent of her relationship with her high school teacher Mr. Dexter years prior. Although more than a decade has passed since, Tracy has spoken about the experience with almost no one. Therefore, instead of confronting the truth of what she experienced, Tracy has endeavored to ignore it, concocting a distorted narrative to explain her trauma to herself. In this moment, Tracy begins to realize that this particular narrative might not be entirely accurate. She is thus afraid to acknowledge her past because she fears what it will reveal about her present version of...

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