''The Guest' would be much less creepy if Cline, too, weren't playing Alex’s game, critiquing the lifestyles of the wealthy while pandering to them by selling America's class tensions in a way that’s palatable for poolside consumption.' -Hannah Rowan
In reference to Alex, the antihero of The Guest, the first part may be too generous. As Alex descends from hot grifter to homeless has-been at the end of a long losing streak one summer, she blames a rigid class system. But Alex is also a pretty bad girl, and the pair’s self-indulgent class resentment turns Cline’s new novel into a pretty creepy book.
Cline, who titled her previous book of short stories Daddy, has her brand of post-sexual revolution, late-capitalist class whining down pat. In six days, Alex hoovers enough painkillers and alcohol off of rich strangers that at least she doesn’t have to face down all this inequity sober, but still, she assumes that anyone who doesn’t own a swank second home like her enablers is as bitter as she is.
Girls who fail to become women are Cline’s great theme: girls who weren’t fortunate enough to be born as the daughters of the rich and powerful and now find that they have a hard time even selling themselves to them. “Girls dressed in drag as girls,” Cline calls these B-listers, with their cheap clothes and caked makeup. But arrested development, too, grows old.
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