The World According to Garp | Themes
Despite the violence of some of the scenes of The World According to Garp, the tone of the novel is frequently comic, and the values underlying the world Garp attempts to create in his life and his novels are the essential ones of justice, kind fairness, and love. Hence, one of the themes is the difficulty of maintaining those values in a world that seems to foster extremism and random violence. One answer, here as in Irving's other novels, is the nurturing and perpetuation of the family. Jenny Fields is a good mother; Garp is a good father; the proper care of children may be a...
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