Mae's most pivotal turning point comes after a late-night experience out on San Francisco Bay. Even so, despite her anger and her certainty that she's been wronged, it doesn't take long before the Circle's ideologues convince Mae that personal privacy isn't just an outdated concept but a criminal concept that she ought to get rid of right away. Then, after Francis records their first sexual encounter and uploads it into the company's cloud-again without Mae's knowledge or consent-Mae feels even more furious than she did the last time Francis exposed her without her permission. She doesn't like the feeling of being exposed without her knowledge or consent, but she soon finds herself back in Francis' arms. After Francis Garaventa uses her as a test subject during a live demonstration of one of the Circle's new dating apps, Mae feels humiliated and furious. Her parents and her ex-boyfriend Mercer Medeiros notice the changes, but Mae lashes out when Mercer tries to intervene.ĭespite the anger and scorn that Mae feels for Mercer and his Jurassic-era thoughts about technology, the truth is that Mae's adjustment to life at the Circle isn't always pleasant or pretty. He's also really good at hanky-panky-another major difference between him and Francis-and Mae can't stop thinking about him…even though she can't help but wonder if he's a corporate spy.Īs Mae adjusts to life at the Circle, she puts aside more and more of her old habits, opinions, and values in order to conform to the ideologies and expectations that hold sway at her new workplace. Unlike Francis, new boy Kalden is mysterious, inaccessible, and aloof. Mae finds that she's a great Customer Experience representative, but she also gets a couple of scoldings from her supervisors early on-scoldings for missing repeated invitations to a coworker's party and then missing the party altogether, scoldings for spending weekends off-campus visiting her stressed-out parents, scoldings for not being active enough on the Circle's various social feeds, and, eventually, scoldings for keeping certain interests and experiences (like her fondness for kayaking) all to herself.Ī second love interest introduces himself during this period, too, and as with Francis, Mae isn't 100 percent sure what to make of him. Francis has a bad habit of putting his foot in his mouth, and of insulting or demeaning Mae in the process. She meets a new love interest-Francis Garaventa-at a party during her very first night on campus, but she isn't entirely sure what to make of him. Mae's first weeks at the Circle are full of ups and downs. The Circle is an innovative and intensely popular web company that has taken the world by storm in its short six years of existence, and Mae is thrilled to have been given the ultra-desirable opportunity of becoming one of its thousands of employees. The Circle opens on a bright, sunny day in June, as 24-year-old Mae Holland tours campus on her very first day of work at the Circle.
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