History Literature / TheCorrections

* TitleDrop: The last part of the book.

* AdultFear: Career destruction, medical ethics issues, [[spoiler: marital rape]], the list goes on...

* AccidentalMisnaming: While she's on a cruise, Enid visits the ship's doctor. During a relatively brief conversation, he calls her Elaine, Edna, Elinor, Edwina, Edith, Edie and Eden.

* HotForStudent: Chip is pursued by his nineteen-year-old student Melissa, a girl with one or two StalkerWithACrush tendencies.

From Creator/JonathanFranzen, ''The Corrections'' (2001) somehow manages the near impossible task of articulating the trouble of conflicting cultural movements in America without being a huge, pretentious bore. With {{black comedy}}, loads of [[DysfunctionJunction people with awful personalities]], and a [[ShownTheirWork good deal of attention paid to detail]], ''The Corrections'' is definitely worth a look. [[CrapsackWorld Just make sure you're in a good mood when you do.]]

* HotForStudent: Chip is pursued by his nineteen-year-old student Melissa, a girl one or two StalkerWithACrush tendencies.

There has been various attempts to adapt this novel, either as a film or a television series (but the 2011 pilot has yet to picked up by anyone).

* YourCheatingHeart: Robin cheats on Brian.

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* BigScrewedUpFamily: '''Yes'''

* DysfunctionJunction

* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: [[spoiler: Denise]]

* IAmNotMyFather

* OnlySaneMan: "Sane" is a bit of stretch, but of all the kids, Denise comes off as being the most well adjusted.
* SanitySlippage: Poor [[spoiler: Alfred]]...

* SexlessMarriage: Enid and Alfred
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Gary isn't depressed, by the way
* StylisticSuck: Chip's screenplay.

-->''If John Irving and Tom Wolfe stopped bickering about how to write the UsefulNotes/GreatAmericanNovel long enough to sit down and tap one out together, they'd probably end up with something a little like Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections" -- only not as good.''
-->''-Benjamin Svetki, [[http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,174059,00.html EW.com review]]''

Enid Lambert, a mother and [[{{Housewife}} housewife]] for fifty years, wants to get her entire family together for one last, really ''nice'' Christmas together in their [[EverytownAmerica childhood home, the Midwest town of St. Jude]]. Together with her [[TheStoic cold, introverted husband Alfred]] (who's falling deeper into Parkinson's disease), she begins a year-long-campaign to persuade her children to come visit, including Gary, a man whose paranoia and vicious denial of his crumbling mental health is only matched by his wife's passive-aggression; Denise, who [[LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces approaches her relationship with two parts fatalism and one part well-meaning cluelessness]]; and Chip, a CasanovaWannabe whose life got turned upside down when he was fired for an affair with a 19-year-old student.

From Creator/JonathanFranzen, ''The Corrections'' (2001) somehow manages the near impossible task of articulating the trouble of conflicting cultural movements in America without being a huge, pretentious bore. With [[BlackComedy black comedy]], loads of [[DysfunctionJunction people with awful personalities]], and a [[ShownTheirWork good deal of attention paid to detail]], ''The Corrections'' is definitely worth a look. [[CrapsackWorld Just make sure you're in a good mood when you do.]]

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-->''If John Irving and Tom Wolfe stopped bickering about how to write the Great American Novel long enough to sit down and tap one out together, they'd probably end up with something a little like Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections -- only not as good.''

From JonathanFranzen, ''The Corrections'' (2001) somehow manages the near impossible task of articulating the trouble of conflicting cultural movements in America without being a huge, pretentious bore. With [[BlackComedy black comedy]], loads of [[DysfunctionJunction people with awful personalities]], and a [[ShownTheirWork good deal of attention paid to detail]], ''The Corrections'' is definitely worth a look. [[CrapsackWorld Just make sure you're in a good mood when you do.]]