I mean LOO NEE TOONS. Not to mention the very epitome of a hypocrite. Being a nurse you'd think she'd be aware that LUST is a normal part of human behavior and keeps the species from dying out. Her outrageous book got her, and ultimately her son, murdered.
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Being a nurse doesn't automatically mean you really know what lust means. And you seem to think because she wrote a book about lust she got what she deserved (murdered). And Garp's murder had nothing to do with HER book it was HIS.
shareI didn't say she deserved to be murdered. I said she was nuts. And a nurse who isn't familiar with the basic human emotions is woefully under qualified.
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She wasn't nuts--she just had an unusual way at looking at things. And I've met plenty of nurses who are are cold and uncaring.
shareAgreed, plus she CLEARLY states the reason/purpose behind the subject matter of her book. She "raped a dying man" as her father said, so she could have a child. She never experienced lust, as Garp says, so she wrote about just that, being a 'Sexual Suspect'
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She's a sociopath who raped a brain dead man for the selfish reason of wanting a child just to say she had one, was overbearing to the extreme during all of her son's childhood and teenage years, completely overshadowed his achievements because of a selfish desire to tell her story to the world (at the complete expense of her own son's dignity and possible future success), created a "healing oasis" where she kept her "patients" in a perpetual limbo of unresolved problems (simply in order to wield power over these poor, misguided worshippers), introduced her son to the existence of the Ellen Jamesians (which lead to him writing the Ellen book, which resulted in his murder), and supported a political campaign just for attention (even though she'd previously been shot at during a major rally, and should've known that going on a large national platform like that might, once again, run the risk of her getting shot at; it's even worse because she thinks bringing an untrained trans patient of hers as a bodyguard is a tight, well-thought-out security plan).
So if by "unusual", you mean selfish, hateful, sociopathic, power-drunk, and idiotic, then you'd be correct. However, if you meant that she's an understandable, fairly relatable character with a legitimately unique perspective, you are dead wrong.
P.S. - I understand that Garp did the right thing by exposing the Ellen Jamesians as idiots, but it's still awful that his mother is essentially the reason he got horribly murdered. And it's even worse when you take all this other stuff into account, too.