Well, not much, really. Here we find them living in New York homeschooling their children. Evidently that was controversial in 1973 or whenever this was set – it certainly isn’t controversial now – I have dozens of families as patients that home school their children.

Anyway – long story short (and this novel is fairly short) not much interesting happens here. This book was a disappointment, sorry to say.
Rating: 2 / 5

It’s difficult to go into the other “why”s without spoiling too much, but they come thick and and fast from the very beginning: why would Mr. Robinson have left his house to Ben and Elaine? Why has Ben remained the weak-willed man-child he was in The Graduate, and apparently not grown as a character? Why so much back-and-forth repeating of each other’s lines of dialog? Why do Ben and Elaine’s young boys speak with the vocabulary, wisdom, and insight of 45-year-olds? Why would any halfway sane, reasonable person tolerate such incredible abuses by unwanted houseguests for even 10 minutes before calling the police? The whole thing comes off as a cheap and silly sitcom, with characters reduced to puppets. Another reviewer pointed out what an excellent job the first novel did of exploring themes of alienation and obsession, and giving the reader glimpse of the complicated inner workings of each of the characters. Why, then, has Mrs. Robinson been reduced here to a 1-dimensional stage villain? And why the horribly trite deus ex machina at the end? (Trust me – it makes no sense for at least 2 or 3 reasons.)

At least I checked it out from the library, so I don’t have to add “Why did I pay good money for this?” to my list.
Rating: 2 / 5