Brooks's review
The World According to Garp
by John Irving
Brooks's review
The World According to Garp by John Irving
Brooks's review
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This is the story of T.S. Garp, a writer. It starts with the story of his mother, Molly Fields, a nurse, feminist, and writer. Her story is in many ways is better than Garp’s. She is the only daughter of a moderately wealthy shoe manufacturer. She decides to become a nurse to help people (spurning her family). However, she hates the lust of men. She even slices open a potential molester in a movie theater. She eventually decides she wants a child but does not want to marry. During WWII she works in a hospital for the terminally wounded. She decides to have sex with Technical Sergeant Garp right before he passes away. Mollie raises Garp at the Steering School as the school nurse. Mollies audits classes and is a great reader and directs or son on which courses to take and even what sports. After graduation, they both go to Vienna to write. However, Mollie is the more successful and writes her autobiography, Sexual Suspect. Garp eventually writes three novels,...more
