Essay Archive - Ordinary People: Dysfunctional Family
Ordinary People: Dysfunctional Family
Thousands of people around the world suffer the consequences of not
being able to forgive, in some cases it destroys their life. Ordinary
People by Judith Guest, is the story of a dysfunctional family who relate
to one another in a very odd way. The book opens with seventeen year old
Conrad, son of upper middle-class Beth and Calvin Jarret, home after eight
months in a psychiatric hospital, there because he attempted suicide by
slashing his wrists. Canard’s mother, is very self-possessed. She appears
to have a....
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