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ISSN: 2456-7620

Impact Factor: 5.96

Strained Family Relationships and Botched Careers in Jonathan Franzen’s Novels - Corrections and Purity

Vol-6,Issue-4,July - August 2021

Author: Jyothi Katari, P. Rajendra Karmarkar

Keywords: Corrections and Purity, Time Magazine, Jonathan Franzen

Abstract: A National Book Award writer Jonathan Franzen received extensive critical praise for the novel The Corrections focuses much on family members whose marriages are unsuccessful, strained familial relationships, and failed careers. In 2001 the novel ‘the corrections’ was at the centre of a dispute between American television talk-show hosts Oprah Winfrey, who selected it for her extensively popular book club. Franzen’s engrossment with family influences was visible in his later novel, Purity which describes a young woman whose mother always refuses to reveal her origins. Finally she joins an organization resembling Wiki leaks and becomes involved with its terrific leader. Franzen showed the troubles of Pip and how it takes away to understand the world and which is predictably extensive cast of supporting characters, to meet a sharp critique of consumerism, digital culture, and human solipsism.

Article Info: Received: 12 Jun 2021; Received in revised form: 14 Jul 2021; Accepted: 20 Jul 2021; Available online: 27 Jul 2021

ijeab doi crossrefDOI: 10.22161/ijels.64.19

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