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3 | ->''"If Creator/JohnIrving 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."'' |
4 | -->-- '''Benjamin Svetki''', ''Entertainment Weekly'' [[http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,174059,00.html review]] |
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6 | ''The Corrections'' is a 2001 novel written by Creator/JonathanFranzen. |
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8 | Enid Lambert, a mother and {{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. |
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10 | There have 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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12 | !!Contains examples of: |
13 | * 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, Andie, Edie and Eden. |
14 | %%* BigScrewedUpFamily: '''Yes''' |
15 | * CallingTheOldManOut: Every single sibling has tried this with their parents, [[SelectiveObliviousness to little or no success]]. |
16 | * CloserToEarth: Played straight ''and'' deconstructed with both Enid and Denise. Most other women [[AvertedTrope avert]] this entirely. |
17 | * 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. |
18 | %%* DysfunctionJunction |
19 | * FanDisservice: See HotForStudent. And that's just the first example. |
20 | * {{Gayngst}}: [[spoiler: Denise]] suffers some before becoming adjusted to her sexuality. |
21 | * GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Brian cheating on Robin is bad, Robin cheating on Brian is good [[spoiler: believes Denise]]. |
22 | * HandsOffParenting: Caroline believes in this, much to Gary's chagrin. |
23 | %%* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: [[spoiler: Denise]] |
24 | * HumiliationConga: Chip's life after his disastrous affair with Melissa in the first half of the book is essentially this. |
25 | %%* IAmNotMyFather |
26 | * LoopholeAbuse: [[spoiler: Turns out Denise was AboveTheInfluence when it came to married men. Married women, on the other hand...]] |
27 | * MoralGuardian: Enid ''is'' distilled Middle America. |
28 | * TheNineties |
29 | %%* OnlySaneMan: "Sane" is a bit of stretch, but of all the kids, Denise comes off as being the most well adjusted. |
30 | %%* SanitySlippage: Poor [[spoiler: Alfred]]... |
31 | * 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. |
32 | %%* SexlessMarriage: Enid and Alfred |
33 | * SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Gary isn't depressed, by the way. |
34 | %%* StylisticSuck: Chip's screenplay. |
35 | * TalkingPoo: During the cruise, Alfred has a hallucination where a talking piece of feces appears and insults him. |
36 | * TeacherStudentRomance: Chip is pursued by his nineteen-year-old student Melissa, a girl with one or two StalkerWithACrush tendencies. |
37 | * TitleDrop: Gets dropped in reference to something different in each section. |
38 | * WhamEpisode: Once at the end of every part, but [[spoiler: the end of Albert and Enid's cruise, especially]]. |
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