![]() ![]() Glancing inland, he settled on a cottage that rested just beyond the border of beach grass. Rattled behind his eyes, giving him a headache. The vibrations traveled up into his skull and Lolling his bullhead, he dragged one of his tusks acrossĪ razor of rock. This way that Franzen seduces our desire, and we are more than happy to be seduced.īeach, a flipper across his eyes and a ho-hum in his throat. What gives Franzen’s book suchĪn incredible force is the way it seems as though things are always about to come together. “corrections” motif never fully come together. Like theĭetails that bring Franzen’s characters to life, these diverse meanings of the Thinks he must constantly enforce in order to raise obedient children. Further still, The Corrections can refer to the corrections that a younger Alfred To the neurological corrections that an experimental therapy called Correktall is supposed to give to Alfred ![]() In this novel, "the corrections” refers to the economic “corrections” that swept throughĪmerica following the dreamlike financial boom of the late-90s. Not work in terms of theme, defined as “a unifying or dominant idea.” He rather works through motif, meaning “a subject elaborated upon through recurrence.”įor example, lies far more within the realm of motif than theme. ![]() Franzen can be (and has been) criticized for failing to giveĭiscernible thematic unity to his novels. ![]()
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