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The World According to Garp in Context to the American Experience
 The World According to Garp is strange and slightly twisted... like the rest of the America. Main topics in The World According to Garp that relate to the American Experience are things such as feminism, lust, and family issues.

Jenny Fields starts an accidental revolution. Stating feminist ideals with a "who gives" attitude. Around the time of the book's publishing a similar thing was going on in the United States. Feminism was just starting to take hold and make a statement and we see the same thing happen in the book.

America is consumed with lust, in one way or another. Such a thought is looked at and disected in The World According to Garp. Jenny Field's complete obsession with, and lack of, lust is a constant view up until, and even a little after her death. Lust is constantly the down fall to Garp, and such struggles are constantly plaguing the society that we call America.

From dealing with marriage problems, death of family members, and emotionally unstable people The World According to Garp talks about the same problems every family in America is dealing with at one point. Though it is crazy, and slightly sick, there are uncanny parallels to ones own life through out the entire social aspect of The World According to Garp.