Although Landon is embarrassed to be in Jamie’s presence in front of his friends, Jamie comes to his rescue when she prevents his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend from beating him up. Faced with the prospect of either going alone or taking “the kind of girls who had thick glasses and talked with lisps” (25), Landon elects to invite Jamie Sullivan, who comes from a religious Baptist with whom the capitalist Carter family has something of a feud. He’s stumped by the Homecoming Dance, however, when he cannot find a date amongst the eligible girls in the school. When his father suggests that he run for student body president to enhance his college prospects, Landon does-and wins the election. In the fall of his senior year of high school, affluent Landon Carter is popular but uncertain of his purpose in life.
Directly addressing the reader, he promises that he will deliver the story of that fate-changing year. In 1999, the narrator, 57-year-old Landon Carter reflects on the fall of 1958, when he was 17.
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