A for Jeremiah.

What Portia does for Jeremiah is arguably immoral. She denies, or rather, crushes an applicant’s hope of getting into Princeton. Although Jesse Bolton is determined to go to Yale, an admission to Princeton is not simply a chance to attend, but a symbol of capability. Getting into Princeton proves the applicants to be more capable than majority of high school grads that year. But Portia admits Jeremiah because not only that she believes he is capable but because she is repaying him for what she has owed for the past eighteen years. I think what Portia does for Jeremiah is giving back what he deserves. Portia owns Jeremiah the opportunity he always has been lacking. In many ways, Portia’s purpose for her action is to find relief. She wants to find relief to what she has owed Jeremiah. She wants relief from what has been hunting her for the past eighteen years. She wants relief from what have kept her the way she is. She wants relief from her job-addicted lifestyle. She does find that relief. She leaves Princeton. She releases herself from reading thousands of application letters each year. She releases herself from the pain that she kept inside of her for eighteen years. She is free from the past and her job, an occupation that had kept her in her past. She is free because of A she gives Jeremiah for Princeton admission. But what does admission really mean in this case? Jeremiah gain admission to Princeton, what does that mean to him? What does Jeremiah’s admission mean to Portia? Is the admission for Jeremiah or is it for Portia? Is Jeremiah’s admission an admission for Portia to herself? I feel like Portia has gained admission to herself. Hitting that A allows her to do something that she would never have done. I feel that Portia is obsess with her job and takes pride in her job that she would never transfer Jeremiah from denied to admitted pile if she has not been admitted to her inner self, to her past. She has finally willing to face her past and her inner self that she is willing to sacrifice her job for that admission. As for Jeremiah, I think he is admitted to not only Princeton but is also admitted to Portia’s world. She will be leaving Princeton, but he is to enter.