![]() ![]() 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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