

She notices that all the people in the school, because of being from wealthy families, have different social levels. Apart from the wealthy, there is a conflict with Lee on the issues of social class. The knowledge that Ault is historically the school of the wealthiest families, Lee is always isolated, especially in her beliefs. The social class creates the feeling of not fitting in. For example, she is trying to fit in with social class. Lee is a character that has developed the inter-personal and intrapersonal conflict. The first conflict that Lee faces is the wanting to fit-in and social class. Although Lee expects to experience a wonderful life in her new school, she ends up documenting major conflicts all throughout her four-year course at Ault, which conveys observation of a typical teenager in high school. She focuses on the conflict with her parents and the difference between the other Ault parents and on the conflict between her and her education, teachers, and classmates.

Paradox’s that Lee focuses on in the book, include her trying hard to fit in, while dealing with issues of social class. Leaving for Ault was not only going to a different city and experiencing a new school, but she would also experience a completely different world. The story is only a selection of some experiences that could, according to her, sum up all the knowledge she has in Ault. She tells the story of her teenage years in the form of memories when she is thirty years old.

In the story of the main character, who also is the narrator of Prep, Lee Fiora narrates her experience in the Ault school for the four years she is there. The school has also taught both sons and daughters of the wealthiest families on the East Coast. Prep is a story by Curtis Sittenfeld, that rotates around the main character, Lee Fiora.
