"The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen

Introduction

The novel "The Corrections" is a great novel by Jonathan Franzen. In this novel, he has presented a story of a Lambert family which is unique. The family consists of Alfred, a retired engineer at the edge of mental and physical chaos of a terminal Parkinson, Enid, his wife, obsessed with gathering at home with her three children during a late Christmas dinner. The character of father portrays a man with iron concealed from outside, but this makes him unable to share his feelings (Bing, 9). Chip, a former teacher, fired for sleeping with a student who ...