Mental Illness In Miriam Tow's The Flying Troutman

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Mental illnesses are one of the most frightening medical conditions to fall upon someone, as there are not any ways of curing such things and end up changing who the effect one is as a person. Due to how devastating mental illnesses are, it not only affects the person directly but also all those around them in various ways. Miriam Toews’ shows how mental illness effect people differently in her novel The Flying Troutman, a story about a family stricken by a members mental illness and their journey of coping with it. She displays this idea through the four characters of Hattie, Min, Thebes, and Logan Troutman as they go through their daily routines and interactions with one another. Miriam Toews’ establishes how mental illnesses affect others

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