Tracy Enid Flick is a fictional character who is the subject of the 1998 novel Election by Tom Perrotta and portrayed by Reese Witherspoon in the 1999 film adaptation of the same title. She is a smart, ambitious high school student whose quest to …

Tracy Flick Can't Win is a 2022 novel by American author Tom Perrotta. [1] It was published by Scribner and is a sequel to the 1998 novel Election. [2] [3] In the audiobook of the 2022 novel, Tracy Flick is voiced by Lucy Liu. [4]

The film stars Matthew Broderick as Jim McAllister, a popular high school social studies teacher, and Reese Witherspoon as Tracy Flick, an overachieving student whom he dislikes. When Tracy runs for student government president, McAllister sabotages her candidacy by backing a rival candidate and tampering with the ballot count.

Tracy Flick : [giving her opening election speech in front of the assembled student body] Poet Henry David Thoreau once wrote "I cannot make my days longer, so I strive to make them better." With this election, we here at Carver also have an opportunity to …

Jun 13, 2022 · After “Election,” Flick became a symbol of craven female ambition, Katy Waldman writes. Tom Perrotta’s new sequel, “Tracy Flick Can’t Win,” finds the character wondering what went wrong.

May 2, 2019 · As played by Witherspoon, Tracy Flick is the sort of nuanced character that serves as a tabula rasa for her audience’s feelings about women, especially ambitious young women. Is she a...

Jun 9, 2022 · Tracy Flick is back — this time in middle age. How did life turn out for her? NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Tom Perrotta about his new novel, Tracy Flick Can't Win.

Jul 14, 2022 · Perrotta’s new Election sequel, Tracy Flick Can’t Win, turns on the question of which interpretation of Election is correct. Is it the interpretation of 1999, or that of 2019?

Aug 1, 2019 · What America Gets Wrong About Tracy Flick In “Election,” she’s preyed upon by a teacher and almost cheated out of her rightful victory. But somehow she’s the villain.

Jun 5, 2022 · Seen through the prism of #MeToo, 'Election' has some explaining to do. In a new sequel, novelist Tom Perrotta gives Tracy Flick another chance to win.