The World According To Garp Chapter 17 Analysis

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“The World According to Garp” Chapter 17 In chapter 17 of The World According to Garp, Garp finds out plans for his mother’s funeral and has all intentions of going to say goodbye to her one last time. Throughout the chapter we see Roberta trying to look out for Garp and look out for his feelings. The Ellen Jamesians have planned the funeral to be a feminist funeral, therefore no men are to be there. Garp, being Jenny’s son, does not accept this and does not care what they have planned he will be at that funeral one way or another. With the help of Roberta he was able to go in disguise and stay unnoticed for a little while and was able to say goodbye even though when he was caught he was attacked by them. All of that being said, I

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