The World According to Garp | Social Concerns
The central social issues with which Irving deals in The World According to Garp are the causes and manifestations of the contemporary feminist movement. The main character, T. S. Garp, is the product of a union between a nurse named Jenny Fields and a dying patient whom she chooses to impregnate her; this is her way of becoming a single parent in the 1940s, before such an arrangement was sanctioned by society. Jenny's autobiography, A Sexual Suspect, written merely to tell her own story, catapults her to fame as a spokesperson for feminism in the 1960s; she later runs a...
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