The man was badly wounded and as a result he was only able to say the word Garp. Jenny soon builds herself a reputation in the hospital and she begins joking that she only wants to get pregnant and have a child instead of marrying a man and becoming a wife.ĭuring a night shift, Jenny takes care of a badly injured Sergeant named Garp. After the incident, her family thinks that their daughter is behaving in a sexual promiscuous manner but the reality is that Jenny did not manifest any type of interest towards men. One night, while Jenny was at the theater, she is groped by a soldier and Jenny fights back, injuring the soldier. Jenny comes from a wealthy family but she decided to study and be a nurse instead on focusing on finding a husband as her family wanted her to. The novel opens in 1942 with one of the main characters, Jenny Fields.
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It’s his style.These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. As much as he hates his anxiety, he can’t help but revel in his morbid neuroses. If he isn’t worrying about the lives of his family members, he’s considering the many ways he might fail in life. Garp is living most of his life inside his own head – far more than normal people. He’s constantly striving to overcome his previous work, to make something worth truly attaching his name to. Even after publishing novels, he still does not feel like a real writer. If they want to raise a family, at least one of them is going to have to bring home the bacon, so to speak.Ĭhallenge… becoming a successful writer. She is the daughter of a wrestling coach, and she becomes an English teacher to make up for Garp’s financial shortcomings. Constantly fantasizing about ways his loved ones might die, Garp finds himself fetishizing death quite similarly to the way he fetishizes sex. Garp becomes as obsessed with sex as he does with death. To make up for his financial deficits as a writer, he takes a job as a wrestling coach. Although he does find some success in his publications, he will never measure up to his mother’s success with her autobiography, which becomes hailed as a feminist manifesto. Or perhaps Garp just enjoys making himself somewhat miserable. Garp is prepared to be a “struggling writer,” something that he feels has as many rewards as it does burdens. While his mother begins writing her autobiography, he writes his first novella in Vienna. Garp becomes increasingly interested in writing fiction. Jenny raised Garp alone, and gave him an upbringing he would never forget. Grew Up… the son of Jenny Fields, a staunch feminist who, as a nurse for the military, had sex with an unconscious, dying soldier.
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