jenny fields the world according to garp

His mother beats him to the press with her autobiography, 'Sexual Suspect,' which makes her guru of a feminist movement, peopled with mutes who have cut out their tongues in sympathy with a rape victim.īut Garp, despite praise from book reviewers, remains infamous for his lineage. Here, there's an abrupt shift of scene and Garp is a full-grown wrestler, who weds the coach's daughter Helen (Mary Beth Hurt) and later becomes a writer. Later in life, Garp's young son will mishear the warning, as 'Be careful of the Under Toad,' the symbol of capricious doom that holds the film together. 'Be careful of the undertow,' Jenny shouts over surf. His precarious childhood closes at the Fields' ancestral home at Dog's Head Harbor, when he wades into the sea. When he rips, the family dog tears off his ear lobe. In his first sexual exploit, the twelvish Cushie (Jillian Ross) teaches him that first she says, 'Not tonight, dear, I've got a headache' then he rips off her clothes. The young Garp (James McCall) develops an early avarice for what so revolts Jenny. Glenn Close gives an incredible performance as Jenny, drawing sympathy for this prune of a woman, who takes a job at an elite prep school to pay for Garp's education. The hero is the bastard of Jenny Fields, a lust-lacking nurse who rapes a mortally wounded tail gunner - nothing's working but his libido - to have a child without the bother of a husband. Garp, but luckily star Robin Williams, familiar with alien intelligence, grasps him Mork would have liked Garp. Episodic scenes shift through the quirky mind of T.S. Lots of parts get lost in 'Garp,' where the stream of consciousness flows in fits and starts. In Garp's, he'd have had a horrible accident and lost both legs.

Watching it feels like waiting for your husband to drive home in a thunderstorm and telling yourself, relax, he'll be here any minute.

The movie, faithful to John Irving's novel, if not to his narrative, views like a full-scale anxiety attack. There's a post-Freudian epigram-'Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean nobody's following you' - that puts 'The World According to Garp' into perspective.

Jenny fields the world according to garp