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''The Corrections'' is a 2001 novel written by Creator/JonathanFranzen.
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* TalkingPoo: During the cruise, Alfred has a hallucination where a talking piece of feces appears and insults him.
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* HotForStudent: Chip is pursued by his nineteen-year-old student Melissa, a girl with one or two StalkerWithACrush tendencies.
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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.]]
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* YourCheatingHeart: Robin cheats on Brian.
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-->''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.]]
-->''-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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-->''-Benjamin Svetki,
-->-- '''Benjamin Svetki''', ''Entertainment Weekly'' [[http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,174059,00.html
Enid Lambert, a mother and
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From JonathanFranzen, 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.''
-->''-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 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.]]
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).
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!!Contains Examples Of:
* AdultFear: Career destruction, medical ethics issues, [[spoiler: marital rape]], the list goes on...
* BigScrewedUpFamily: '''Yes'''
* CallingTheOldManOut: Every single sibling has tried this with their parents, [[SelectiveObliviousness to little or no success]].
* CloserToEarth: Played straight ''and'' deconstructed with both Enid and Denise. Most other women [[AvertedTrope avert]] this entirely.
* CreatorBreakdown: In-universe. Chip tries to write a screenplay to get back at Melissa and the school board for firing him. The result? See StylisticSuck.
* DysfunctionJunction
* FanDisservice: See HotForStudent. And that's just the first example.
* {{Gayngst}}: [[spoiler: Denise]] suffers some before becoming adjusted to her sexuality.
* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Brian cheating on Robin is bad, Robin cheating on Brian is good [[spoiler: believes Denise]].
* HandsOffParenting: Caroline believes in this, much to Gary's chagrin.
* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: [[spoiler: Denise]]
* HotForStudent: Chip is pursued by his nineteen-year-old student Melissa, a girl one or two StalkerWithACrush tendencies.
* HumiliationConga: Chip's life after his disastrous affair with Melissa in the first half of the book is essentially this.
* IAmNotMyFather
* LoopholeAbuse: [[spoiler: Turns out Denise was AboveTheInfluence when it came to married men. Married women, on the other hand...]]
* MoralGuardian: Enid ''is'' distilled Middle America.
* TheNineties
* 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]]...
* SelectiveObliviousness: To say that all of these characters are living in denial of both themselves and the people around them is a gross, gross understatement.
* SexlessMarriage: Enid and Alfred
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Gary isn't depressed, by the way
* StylisticSuck: Chip's screenplay.
* TitleDrop: The last part of the book.
* WhamEpisode: Once at the end of every part, but [[spoiler: the end of Albert and Enid's cruise, especially]].
* YourCheatingHeart: Robin cheats on Brian.
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-->''-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 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.]]
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).
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!!Contains Examples Of:
* AdultFear: Career destruction, medical ethics issues, [[spoiler: marital rape]], the list goes on...
* BigScrewedUpFamily: '''Yes'''
* CallingTheOldManOut: Every single sibling has tried this with their parents, [[SelectiveObliviousness to little or no success]].
* CloserToEarth: Played straight ''and'' deconstructed with both Enid and Denise. Most other women [[AvertedTrope avert]] this entirely.
* CreatorBreakdown: In-universe. Chip tries to write a screenplay to get back at Melissa and the school board for firing him. The result? See StylisticSuck.
* DysfunctionJunction
* FanDisservice: See HotForStudent. And that's just the first example.
* {{Gayngst}}: [[spoiler: Denise]] suffers some before becoming adjusted to her sexuality.
* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Brian cheating on Robin is bad, Robin cheating on Brian is good [[spoiler: believes Denise]].
* HandsOffParenting: Caroline believes in this, much to Gary's chagrin.
* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: [[spoiler: Denise]]
* HotForStudent: Chip is pursued by his nineteen-year-old student Melissa, a girl one or two StalkerWithACrush tendencies.
* HumiliationConga: Chip's life after his disastrous affair with Melissa in the first half of the book is essentially this.
* IAmNotMyFather
* LoopholeAbuse: [[spoiler: Turns out Denise was AboveTheInfluence when it came to married men. Married women, on the other hand...]]
* MoralGuardian: Enid ''is'' distilled Middle America.
* TheNineties
* 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]]...
* SelectiveObliviousness: To say that all of these characters are living in denial of both themselves and the people around them is a gross, gross understatement.
* SexlessMarriage: Enid and Alfred
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Gary isn't depressed, by the way
* StylisticSuck: Chip's screenplay.
* TitleDrop: The last part of the book.
* WhamEpisode: Once at the end of every part, but [[spoiler: the end of Albert and Enid's cruise, especially]].
* YourCheatingHeart: Robin cheats on Brian.
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