Still, she was a nurse and she must have felt Helen’s need she did not shove the girl away from her, though she knew very well she was not Helen’s mother. “Jesus Christ!” said Jenny Fields, who was never a woman who liked to be touched. “It’s me, Mom! It’s Helen,” she said, bursting into tears she flung her slim arms around Jenny’s shoulders and pressed her wet face to Jenny’s throat. I chose Helen Holm as my main character, because she is Garp’s wife, she plays an important role in his life and in the events in the book.ġ) “Mom?” the girl said to Jenny. In more than thirty languages, in more than forty countries, this novel provides almost cheerful, even hilarious evidence of its famous last line: "In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases." It is a novel rich with "lunacy and sorrow" yet the dark, violent events of the story do not undermine a comedy both ribald and robust. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son theirs is a world of sexual extremes- even of sexual assassinations. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields- a feminist leader ahead of her times. I chose for this one, because it describes exactly what the book is about, without describing everything or betray the clue. I searched for it on the Internet and found very long summaries with a lot of spell errors and a few good ones. Then I had made a tolerable, short summary, but nobody could make head or tail of it. The Garp legacy is in good hands.I have tried to write my own summary, but I found it a bit difficult: it’s a very complicated story and there happen so many things, I couldn’t describe everything. But she seems to fit her name to perfection, striking an ideal balance between her famous grandmother and famous father. So it's only right that the characters in the book about him get the same treatment.Īfter all is said and done, the last character left alive is Jenny Garp, whom we've hardly gotten to know at this point. This feels like it's straight out of one of Garp's books-as a writer, Garp is dedicated to seeing his stories all of the way through. It's also fitting that the novel closes with an extended epilogue, tracing the lives and deaths of the whole cast of characters. Pooh is, in many ways, the quintessential Ellen Jamesian-a political faction dedicated to Garp-hating-and when you factor in her personal history with him, dating back to Garp's fling with Cushie, everything starts to fall into place. Seriously.īut this isn't to say that this ending doesn't make sense it totally does once you think about it. If you saw that one coming, then you should really consider a career as a palm reader. So after all of that-the crazy accidents, the immense personal growth, and the massive literary success-Garp is killed by Pooh Percy.
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