What is Prose implying in the following statement about what she calls the “new-model English-class graduate”: “But of course what’s happening is more complex and subtle than that [seeing books as unconnected to advertising], more closely connected to how we conceive of the relation between intellect and spirit” (para. 45)?
Prose is implying that the “new-model English-class graduate” is affected by the way literature istaught in schools. Many graduates come to dislike literature more and more, as their high school